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John Lamont and James Campbell, v John Alston, Jun. [1787] Mor 8766 (20 February 1787)
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Subject_1 MEMBER of PARLIAMENT. Subject_2 DIVISION IV.
Decisions common to qualifications upon the old extent and valuation.
Subject_3 SECT. III.
Nominal and Fictitious.
John Lamont and James Campbell, v. John Alston, Jun
Date: 20 February 1787 Case No. No 146.
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The feudal titles, in virtue of which Mr Alston, jun. was enrolled among the freeholders of the county of Renfrew, imported only a liferent of the superiority, which, considered merely as a patrimonial right, was equally nominal with any of those which had been rejected by the Court.
But it appeared that the first separation of the property from the superiority, which took place about thirty years before, had not originated from any political motives.
On this ground, after revising a petition and complaint, in the name of John Lamont and James Campbell, with answers for Mr John Alston, jun.
The Lords repelled the objection, and dismsssed the complaint.
Act. Dean of Faculty, et alii.Alt. Blair, et alii.Clerk, Robertson.
Fol. Dic. v. 3. p. 419. Fac. Col. No 318. p. 492.
