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Magistrates of Edinburgh v Johnston. [1636] Mor 15066 (3 July 1636)
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Subject_1 SUPERIOR AND VASSAL. Subject_2 SECT. XIV.
A Superior bound to enter the Vassal, reserving his own Right.
Magistrates of Edinburgh v. Johnston
Date: 3 July 1636 Case No. No. 77.
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The Provost and Bailies of Edinburgh being charged to enter James Johnston to certain tenements in Leith, as heir to his father, they suspend, and offer a precept, containing a reservation of all the privileges which the Town of Edinburgh craves over the inhabitants of Leith; which the charger refused to accept but conform to the old style. The Lords ordained them to enter the vassal conform to the old infeftment; but in the decreet upon the said suspension, it is declared, that the entry of the said vassal shall be but prejudice of the superior's right prout de jure.
