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[1790] Mor 8867      

Subject_1 MEMBER of PARLIAMENT.
Subject_2 DIVISION VI.

Summary Complaint to the Court of Session.
Subject_3 SECT. II.

Upon what grounds is a Complaint admitted.

Sir William Dunbar
v.
Sir James Sinclair

Date: 2 February 1790
Case No. No 248.

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Sir William Dunbar and others gave in a summary complaint against a judgment of the freeholders of Caithness, for having refused to strike Sir James Sinclair off the roll, though he had succeeded to the peerage of Caithness. The Lords found the complaint competent, and allowed the complainers to bring proof of their allegation.

Fol. Dic. v. 3. p. 433. Fac. Col.

*** This case is No 108. p. 7395. voce Jurisdiction.

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