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[1768] Hailes 261
Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR DAVID DALRYMPLE, LORD HAILES.
Subject_2 THIRLAGE.
Subject_3 Thirlage of Victual, in general, does not comprehend Wheat, where the mill is not properly constructed for grinding it.
Date: James Wight
v.
Thomas Rannie and James Pringle
14 December 1768 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
[Faculty Collection, IV. p. 146; Dictionary, 16,057.]
Auchinleck. Even in an astriction of all grindable corns, there must, from the nature of the thing, and in common sense, be certain restrictions, as of seed-corn and horse-corn; so also of wheat, if the mill is not fit for grinding wheat. We cannot force men to carry their wheat to mills where it will be mangled and made useless.
Kaimes. Although I am no friend to astriction, yet I must observe, that the common mills can grind wheat, though not so well as the mills constructed with marble mill-stones.
Justice-Clerk. To alter this interlocutor, would be a great discouragement on agriculture: it signifies nothing whether the burr-stones were known or not at the period when the lease was granted.
Pitfour. Here there is no extinction of the thirlage; there is only a suspension of it while the mill is not fit for grinding wheat.
On the 14th December 1768, the Lords assoilyied from the demand for the abstracted multures of wheat, adhering to Lord Coalston's interlocutor.
Act. A. Cockburn. Alt. R. Sinclair. Diss. Barjarg, Monboddo. Non liquet, Kaimes.
The electronic version of the text was provided by the Scottish Council of Law Reporting
