Cases Decided in the Court of Session, Volume 2

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Page 569 - Middleton, her mother, by virtue of her contract of marriage with the said " John Ewen, her father, or of any clause, article, or condition therein contained, " which is hereby discharged, to all intents and purposes, as fully and effectually " as if the same was particularly engrossed ; or by any other manner of way ; or " by and through the decease of the said John Ewen, her father, whenever the " same shall happen at the pleasure of God, either as bairn's part of gear, dead's " third, portion-natural,...
Page 30 - That no Rate, nor any Proceeding to be had touching the Conviction of any Offender against this Act, nor any Order, Award, or other Matter or Thing whatsoever made, done, or transacted in or relating to the Execution of this Act, shall be vacated, quashed, or set aside for Want of Form, or be removed or removable by Certiorari or other Writ or Process whatsoever into any of the Superior Courts.
Page 273 - ... to appeal to the justices of the peace at the next general quarter sessions of the peace to be holden for the county, riding, or...
Page 273 - ... if any person or persons shall find himself or themselves aggrieved by the judgment of any such justice, then he or they shall and may, upon giving security to the amount...
Page 445 - ... all and every one of such acts and deeds with all that shall happen to follow or may follow...
Page 241 - That during the dependence of the action of aliment brought by the respondent, the representer raised a counter action of adherence, and that those actions, upon his own motion, were conjoined, and therefore finds it unnecessary to determine whether the action of aliment was competent. Finds that a maid-servant, with whom the representer had had a criminal intercourse, was allowed to continue in family with him at the time of his marriage, and that after the respondent, on knowing the fact, had justifiably...
Page 762 - Affirmation made in pursuance of this Act, he shall be liable to a Prosecution either at the Instance of Her Majesty's Advocate...
Page 86 - William late Duke of Queensberry had not power, by the entail founded upon by the parties in this cause, to grant tacks, partly for yearly rent and partly for prices or sums of money paid to himself, and that tacks granted by him upon the surrender of former tacks which had been granted partly for yearly rent, and partly for prices or sums of money paid to himself, as between the persons claiming under the entail, ought to be considered as set with evident diminution of the rental: And it is ordered,...

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