Simon Fraser, a freeholder of Inverness-shire, filed a complaint with the Court of Session objecting to Alexander Fraser Tytler’s claimed eligibility to vote for a knight of Inverness-shire. Tytler’s claim rested on his wife’s status as a freeholder of that county. In the course of the proceedings, Simon Fraser died, and William Fraser, another of the freeholders of Inverness-shire, took up the complaint. The debate centered on the 7th clause of the 12th of Queen Anne and the meanings of the words "property" and "superiority." In the end the Court repelled the complaints of the pursuers and upheld Lord Woodhouselee's enrollment and vote.

Published Reports

William Morison, The Decisions of the Court of Session (1811), pg. App. 1, No. 8
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Locations

Session Papers

Petition and Complaint Unto The Right Honourable The Lords of Council and Session, the Petition and Complaint of Simon Fraser, Esq; younger of Lovat 30 Nov 1802
Answers Answers for The Honourable Alexander Fraser Tytler of Woodhouselee, one of the Senators of the College of Justice ; to the Petition and Complaint of Simon Fraser, Esq; younger of Lovat 10 Feb 1803
Replies Replies for William Fraser, Esq; of Queens-Square, Bloomsbury, London, one of the Freeholders of the County of Inverness ; and Robert Dundas, Writer to the Signet, his Mandatory, to the Answers for the honorable Alexander Fraser Tytler of Woodhouselee, one of the Senators of the College of Justice 12 Nov 1803
Duplies

Duplies for the Honourable Alexander Fraser Tytler of Woodhouselee, one of the Senators of the College of Justice; to the Replies for William Fraser, Esq; of Queen's Square, Bloomsbury, London, one of Freeholders of the County of Inverness; and Robert Dundas, writer to the signet, his Mandatary.

 		20 Dec 1803