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Ferguson v Shaw Stewart. [1780] Mor 8670 (25 July 1780)
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Subject_1 MEMBER of PARLIAMENT. Subject_2 DIVISION III.
The Qualification of Freeholders possessing Lands liable in Public Burden for L. 400 Scots.
Subject_3 SECT. V.
How a division of Valuation may be set aside. - Every Party interested in a division ought to be made a Party to it. - Erroneous division.
Ferguson v. Shaw Stewart
Date: 25 July 1780 Case No. No 80.
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An erroneous division of a cumulo valuation having been acquiesced in for 20 years, and the land-tax paid according to it, the Lords dismissed a complaint against an enrolment made on the ground of that error.—See Appendix.
