Scottish Court of Session Decisions

Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION. reported by ALEXANDER TAIT, CLERK OF SESSION, one of the reporters for the faculty.
Subject_2 RUN-RIG LANDS.

Woddrop
v.
Gray

Date: 15 January 1777

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The division of lands lying run-rig proceeds on the statute 1695, c. 23. It contains a virtual exception of mansion-house and policy.

In a cause, Woddrop against Gray, two heritors in the neighbourhood of Glasgow, 14-th June 1775, it occurred, What fell to be comprehended under the denomination of mansion-house and what under that of policy?

Under the word mansion-house seemed to be comprehended, not only the mansion-house itself, properly so called, but the offices, such as stable, barn, byre, coach-house and the like; which truly make a part of the mansion-house. As to a pigeon house, especially if at a distance, there seemed more doubt; but as to sheds for cattle, sheep-houses, or the like, these were appanages of the land, and not parts of the mansion-house.

Policy, again, seemed to comprehend gardens, orchards, and plantations immediately adjoining to the mansion-house.

The Lords, before advising, remitted to Lord Alva, to inquire further into facts concerning the building of the offices, the time of doing so, &c. and to report.

His Lordship reported accordingly, and, upon advising the whole, the Lords pronounced this interlocutor:—“Find that offices proper and necessary for the proprietor of the mansion-house are no proper subject of division under the Act 1695; and remit to the Ordinary to proceed accordingly.”

As to the mansion-house itself, see Fount., 7th December 1698, Trotter.