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[1740] 1 Elchies 339      

Subject_1 PRESCRIPTION.

Earl of Breadalbane
v.
Menzies, &c

1740, July 16.
Case No. No. 21.

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The Lords found that servitude of pasturage and sheilling upon a Royal forest may be acquired by prescription, and that Culdares and Kirknock have prescribed the same; and remitted to the Ordinary to hear parties as to the extent of the servitude, both as to the limits of the ground and the number of cattle. I had no difficulty as to any part of this but the first, whether by the law of Scotland a servitude is prescriptible, notwithstanding the acts of Parliament, on a Royal forest

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