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[1680] 2 Brn 256      

Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JAMES DALRYMPLE OF STAIR.

The Earl of Mar
v.
His Vassals

Date: 18 February 1680

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The Earl of Marr having pursued reduction of a feu, upon a clause therein,—“That upon two terms running in the third it should be null;” and for instructing thereof, produced the vassal's retour:

The Lords suffered the vassal to purge by payment at the bar; seeing the retour bears a feu-duty, si petatur, in the first part of the retour bearing the defunct's right; though these words were not repeated in the posterior clause of the retour or precept, declaring the feu-duty, and expressing the clause irritant

Vol. II, Page 759.

The electronic version of the text was provided by the Scottish Council of Law Reporting     


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