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Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION reported by SIR ROBERT SPOTISWOODE OF PENTLAND.
Subject_2 Such of the following Decision as are of a Date prior to about the year 1620, must have been taken by Spotiswoode from some of the more early Reporters. The Cases which immediately follow have no Date affixed to them by Spotiswoode.
Date:2 February 1627 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
A donator to a simple escheat hath right to no more than appertaineth to the rebel the time of his gift: And now the treasurer useth to cancel that clause in all gifts, (with all that ever they shall acquire during the rebellion,) so that the King may gift the simple escheat many times and to many persons, till such time as he lie year and day at the horn; after which all falleth under his liferent escheat.
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The electronic version of the text was provided by the Scottish Council of Law Reporting
