The Decisions of the Court of Session: From Its First Institution to the Present Time : Digested Under Proper Heads, in the Form of a Dictionary, Volume 10 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
act of Parliament action adjudication albeit alleged annualrent answered apprising arrestment assignation bairns bargain betwixt bill bond Canonmills charge charter church claim clause Clerk consent contract of marriage Court Court of Session creditors Crown death debt debtor decease decerned declarator decreet deed defender defender's defunct Dirleton discharge disponed disposition donatar Durie Earl effect entitled escheat execution executor father favour February foresaid Fountainhall granted Haddington heir heritable heritors husband infeftment inhibition interlocutor James John July King King's kirk kirk session Laird lands lawburrows legacy legatee legitim letters liable libelled liferent liferenter Lord Ordinary LORDS found LORDS repelled marriage ment merks minister moveables null oath obliged paid parish party payment person Pleaded possession preferred provision pursued pursuer rebel rent Scotland Scots Stair statute stipend superior supervenient sustained tack tacksman tailzie teinds tenants testator thereof tion vassal William writ