Legal Subject: Public Burden

Case Date Legal Subject Abstract
James Cheap v. Sir David Carnegie 1788 Debt, Aliment, Ranking of Creditors, Sasine, Teinds, Public Burden Sir David Carnegie, Baronet, defender, submitted answers to the petition of James Cheap, Esquire, pursuer, responding to Cheap's argument that public burdens should be proportioned equally by rental value. Based on the single document cataloged for this case.
Johnston v. Home 1800 Public Burden, Aliment, Teinds, Disposition, Heritor, Debt The deceased defendant Sir John Home sold land to the pursuer, Thomas Johnston. The contract's terms included a notation that the land was free of all public burdens except those explicitly defined in the contract. Johnston sued Sir John Home's heirs, Sir Alexander Stirling and Sir John Stirling, as entails are still on the property. Johnston argued that he should have been been free of them given the contract's terms.

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