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Earl of Moray v The Feuars of the Salmon fishing of Ness. [1677] Mor 2198 (8 November 1677)
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[1677] Mor 2198
Earl of Moray v. The Feuars of the Salmon fishing of Ness
Date: 8 November 1677 Case No. No 45.
In a declarator that the Sheriff of Inverness had right to fish three days in the water of Ness, no necessity was found to call the town, or any but the possessors.
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This is a declarator that the Earl, by his gift-right sheriffship of Inverness ad vitam has right to fish three days in the time called the summer-moon, conform to his possession. Alleged, The Sheriff and Town of Inverness are not called. Answered, He needs call none but the possessors, let them intimate the distress. The Lords repelled the allegeance.
Fol. Dic. v. 1. p. 135. Fountainhall, MS.
Huntley, as Constable of Inverness, claimed right also.
