Some doubts & questions, in the law, especially of Scotland as also, some decisions of the lords of Council and Sessions / collected & observed by Sir John Nisbet of Dirleton ... ; to which is added, an index, for finding the principal matters in the said decisions.

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Title: Some doubts & questions, in the law, especially of Scotland as also, some decisions of the lords of Council and Sessions / collected & observed by Sir John Nisbet of Dirleton ... ; to which is added, an index, for finding the principal matters in the said decisions.
Author: Nisbet, John, Sir, 1609?-1687.
Publication: Edinburgh :: Printed by George Mosman ...,; 1698.
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Subject terms: Law -- Scotland.; Law reports, digests, etc. -- Scotland.
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D. 131. Balmedie contra the Baillies of Abernethie. 15. Jan. 1668.

A Decreet at the Procurator Fiscal's Instance of the Regality of Aberneth∣ie before the Baillie of the Regality, against the Weavers in the Town of Abernethie, for contraveening the Act of Parliament 1661 Anent the breadth and bleetching of Linnen Cloath; was suspended upon that reason, that the Bailies within the Town of Abernethie, were only Judges compe∣tent to the Inhabitants within the Burgh.

The Lords Found, that the Town being only a Burgh of Regality had ju∣risdiction within the same: And the Baillies jurisdiction is Cumulative and not Privative; unless they had it expresly by their Infeftment Privative, and that in such cases Locus est Praeventioni.