Scottish Court of Session Decisions

Subject_1 JURISDICTION.
Subject_2 DIVISION I.

Nature of Jurisdiction.
Subject_3 SECT. III.

Jurisdiction how dismembered.

Earl of Wigton
v.
Town of Kirkintilloch

Date: 7 December 1734
Case No. No 9.

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A baron having granted a charter to his Burgh of Barony, with power to them to chuse their own Bailies, whom he appoints and declares to be his Baron-Bailies within the bounds of the Burgh; the Lords found, that by this grant no more was intended than a subordinate jurisdiction, such as is competent to vassals, which the incorporation of the Burgh is; consistent always with the accumulative jurisdiction in the superior. See Appendix.

Fol. Dic. v. 1. p. 492.