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[1740] Mor 6896      
Subject_1 INFEFTMENT.
Subject_2 SECT. III.

Sasine within Burgh.

Marquis of Tweeddale
 v.
The Town of Musselburgh

Date: 3 July 1740
Case No. No 15.

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It was laid down, as a proposition certain in law, though there was no occasion to give a direct judgment upon it, that an original charter, erecting a burgh, requires no sasine, because there is no person in being at the time who can receive it.

 Fol. Dic. v. 3. p. 317. Kilkerran, (Sasine.) No. 1. p. 503.

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