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Campbell v L. of Lochnoras. [1610] Mor 4685 (14 July 1610)
URL: http://www.bailii.org/scot/cases/ScotCS/1610/Mor1104685-025.html Cite as:
[1610] Mor 4685
Found that by the forfeiture of a subvassal, not only his own right, but all rights flowing from him are carried.
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A sub-vassal being forfeited, he who is infeft in his lands upon the King's presentation may remove the sub-vassal's vassal, albeit he have possessed forty or fifty years after the forfeiture; and needs not to reduce nor annul his infeftment; because the forfeiture of his superior is a decreet of Parliament, whereby his right, and all rights flowing from him, are in effect reduced. Campbell against Laird Lochnoras having right to lands in Cumnock from Riccarton Hepburn, who was vassal thereof to James Earl Bothwell, who, before his forfeiture, held them of Dunbar of Cumnock.
