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Cite as: [1909] ScotLR 293, [1909] SLR 293

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SCOTTISH_SLR_Court_of_Session

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Court of Teinds.

Friday, December 11 1909.

(Before Lord M'Laren, Lord Kinnear, Lord Low, Lord Dundas, and Lord Guthrie.)

46 SLR 293

Minister of Maybole

v.

The Heritors.

Subject_1Teinds
Subject_2Stipend
Subject_3Augmentation
Subject_4Grant of 4 1 2 Chalders, which Exhausted the Free Teind.
Facts:

A parish minister applied for an augmentation of stipend of 44 chalders, which if granted would exhaust the free teind. The heritors did not oppose the application.

The Court having regard to the exceptional circumstances of the case, granted the augmentation craved.

Headnote:

In a process of augmentation raised by the Minister of Maybole against the heritors, the minister craved an augmentation of 44 chalders, with £20 for communion elements. The augmentation asked for was not opposed by the heritors.

Counsel for the minister stated that the stipend, as last modified on July 18th, 1887, stood at 25 chalders, with £20 for furnishing communion elements, and that now the free teind available for augmentation amounted to only £60, which at the present valuation of the chalder (viz., £13, 12s.) was equal to about 4 1 2 chalders. In these circumstances he asked the Court to grant the full augmentation craved on the ground, inter alia, that the exhaustion of the free teind would save the expense both to minister and heritors of any future augmentation, which, at the best, could only produce a very small sum.

Judgment:

Lord M'Laren—[ who delivered the judgment of the Court]—It is quite natural that, as the augmentation of 4 1 2 chalders asked for exhausts the free teind, the heritors should consent to it rather than be put to the inconvenience of a further application hereafter; and therefore while we grant the 4 1 2 chalders asked for, the case will not

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be taken as a precedent except under precisely similar circumstances.

The Court granted the augmentation craved.

Counsel:

Counsel for the Minister— A. J. P. Menzies. Agents— J. Douglas Gardiner & Mill, S.S.C.

1909


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