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[1681] 3 Brn 409      

Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL
Subject_2 SUMMER SESSION.

Gordon
v.
Sir Robert Innes

Date: 8 July 1681

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In the case of Gordon against Sir Robert Innes; where a bond for the price of lands bears, that it shall not be paid till the rights be perfected, and incumbrances cleared, nor bear annualrent medio tempore:

The Lords found the buyer was not liable for annualrent for sixteen years past, because it was all that time ere the incumbrances were purged, and security perfected.—Which was a very hard decision, considering the buyer had during all that time peaceable possession of the land by virtue of the minute, and was distressed by none; and had both the maills and duties, and yet was free of the annualrent of the price; which was ex damno alterius lucrum captare. But the Lords adhered to the paction: which seemed to others to be unlawful and usurary, et pactum contra bonos mores.

Vol. I. Page 146.

The electronic version of the text was provided by the Scottish Council of Law Reporting     


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