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SCOTTISH_SLR_Court_of_Session

Page: 622

Court of Session Inner House Second Division.

Wednesday, June 12. 1878.

[ Lord Adam, Ordinary.

15 SLR 622

Sivright

v.

Straiton Estate Company (Limited).

Subject_1Superior and Vassal
Subject_2Casualty
Subject_3Personal Title
Subject_4Conveyancing Act 1874 (37 and 38 Vict. cap. 94), sec. 4, sub-sec. 4.
Facts:

Held ( aff. Lord Adam, Ordinary) that under the 4th sub-section of the 4th clause of the Conveyancing Act 1874 a singular successor in whose favour in November 1876 a disposition was executed and recorded was liable to the superior in payment of a casualty of a year's rent, although the superior had in 1873 granted a precept of clare constat in favour of the heir of the last-entered vassal (who was still in life), but which was not recorded till after the institution of the action.

Opinions ( per curiam) that this case was ruled by the cases of Ferrier's Trs. v. Bayley, May 26, 1877, 4 R. 738, and Rossmore's Trs. v. Brownlie and Others, Nov. 23, 1877, 15 Scot. Law Rep. 129, and that the unrecorded precept of clare constat was merely a personal title which in virtue of the Conveyancing Act 1774 was swept away by the subsequently recorded disposition.

Counsel:

Counsel for Pursuer (Respondent)— Balfour— Pearson. Agents— Tods, Murray, & Jamieson, W.S.

Counsel for Defenders (Reclaimers)—Lord Advocate (Watson)— M'Laren. Agents— Welsh & Forbes, S.S.C.

1878


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