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The Magistrates of Arbroath v James Carnegy of Newgate. [1688] 3 Brn 683 (21 July 1688)
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Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL Subject_2 SUMMER SESSION.
Date: 21 July 1688
The Magistrates of Arbroath v. James Carnegy of Newgate
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The Magistrates of the Town of Arbroath pursue James Carnegy of Newgate for purprusion, by incroaching on their marches, whereby he had lost his feu. Alleged,—Thir lands holding burgage, the Town was not his superior, but the King, whose bailies and commissioners they were; and so the benefit and casualty of the forfeiture did not accresce to them, but to the King. And he had turned popish to get a gift of it.
