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[1628] 1 Brn 376      

Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR GEORGE AUCHINLECK OF BALMANNO.
Subject_2 The following CASE, and those in the preceding pages, marked as taken from 2d MS. are not found in the MS. followed by Mr Morison, while printing in his Dictionary the Cases from Auchinleck referred to in the Folio Dictionary by Lord Kames.

John Ker
v.
The Tenants of Longnewton

Date: 11 July 1628

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In the concourse of two base infeftments, whereof one, dated in anno 1613, is granted to ———, who set a back-tack to the disponer; the other set, in anno 1621, to another person, who apprehends real possession, by uplifting of the maills and duties from the tenants: He that had the first right pursues removing against the tenants, upon warning made anno 1628. The havèr of the last infeftment excepts upon his infeftment, clad with five years possession, alleging his right could not be taken away but by reduction. The Lords preferred the first infeftment and possession by a back-tack, and decerned removing.

2d MS. Page 189.

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