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Fraser, &c. v Ross of Priesthill and Gordon of Carrol. [1768] Mor 8883 (00 January 1768)
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Subject_1 MEMBER of PARLIAMENT. Subject_2 DIVISION VI.
Summary Complaint to the Court of Session.
Subject_3 SECT. V.
Consequence of withdrawing opposition to a complaint. What fine in a joint complaint. Complaint for bribery. Complaint for undue enrolment.
Fraser, &c v. Ross of Priesthill and Gordon of Carrol
1768. Case No. No 267.
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By § 6. of 16th Geo. II. cap. 11. “If the judgment of the freeholders, refusing to admit, or striking off any person from the roll, shall be affirmed by the Court of Session, the person complaining shall forfeit to the objector the sum of L. 30 Sterling, with full costs of suit.” Where a joint complaint, in name of the liferenter and fiar of the same lands was dismissed, the Court imposed only one penalty of L. 30 on both.——See Appendix.
