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Gilbert M'Lellan v Lady Kirkcudbright. [1669] Mor 10648 (13 February 1669)
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[1669] Mor 10648
Subject_1 POSSESSORY JUDGMENT. Subject_2 SECT. VI.
Against what Rights does it take place? - Runs not contra non valentes agere. - if competent against an Action of Warrandice? - Runs against Minors.
Gilbert M'Lellan v. Lady Kirkcudbright
Date: 13 February 1669 Case No. No 48.
Possessory judgment runs not against non valontem agere.
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Gilbert M'Lellan being infeft by the Lord Kirkcudbright in an annualrent effeiring to 4000 merks out of the lands of Auchinflour, thereafter my Lady was infeft in property, or an annualrent out of the lands, at her pleasure, for her liferent use; and after my Lady's infeftment, my Lord gave a corroborative security of the property of Auchinflour, and stated the 4000 merks of principal, and the 2500 merks of annualrent in one principal, and infeft him there-upon in property, wherein Gilbert was many years in possession before my Lord's death: In the competition betwixt my Lady and him, he craved preference, because he was seven years in possession; 2dly, Because his first right of annualrent still stands, and was, corroborated; and therefore, as he would undoubtedly have been preferred to my Lady for all his annualrents, for the sum of 4000 merks by his first infeftment, which is prior to my Lady's, and as an apprising by poinding of the ground for these annualrents, though posterior to my Lady's infeftment, would be drawn back ad suam causam to his infeftment of annualrent, and be preferred; so my Lord having voluntarily granted this corroborative security to prevent an apprising, it should work the same effect as if an apprising had been then led, and an infeftment thereupon, which would have accumulated the annualrents then past, and made them bear annualrent in the same manner as this corroborative security does.
The Lords preferred Gilbert for the whole annualrents of his 4000 merks, conform to his first infeftment; but would not sustain the corroborative security, being posterior to my Lady's infeftment, as if it had been upon an apprising, to give him annualrent for 2500 merks then accumulated; but found no moment in his allegeance of the possessory judgment, unless it had been seven years after my Lord's death, when my Lady might have preferred her right, and not contra a non valentem agere.
Fol. Dic. v. 2. p. 91. Stair, v. 1. p. 604.
*** See Gosford's report of this case, voce Quod Potuit non Fecit.
