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[1748] 1 Elchies 444      

Subject_1 TACK.

Russell and Aikenhead
v.
Benny

1748, Jan. 7.
Case No. No. 13.

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Upon my report without informations for advice, the Lords found that a tack of a house and shop in Falkirk for 13 years might be assigned or sub-set without consent of the proprietor, though it contained no power to assign or sub-set; and in general found that the general rule that tacks are not assignable does not extend to urban tenements; renit Arniston (in the chair) Drummore, Murkle, Shewalton, et me.

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