Orkney

Cases connected to this place (18)

• Earl of Galloway v. Earl of Morton

  As proprietors of land in Orkney, the pursuers owed defender James, Earl of Morton, annual feu duties that were generally paid in products such as grain, oil, and butter. These duties were measured in the weight units c…
• Dundas v. Baikie and others

  Sir Thomas Dundas petitioned the Court to alter an interlocutor that had ordered the allocation of teind-duties before those to which heritors held heritable rights. Robert Baikie of Tankerness and other heritors of the…
• Balfour v. M'Kenzie

  Balfour pursued the reduction of decrees of prorogation of tithes for Tarbat and Fearn granted to the Earl of Cromarty, arguing that they had been obtained by fraud and in the absence of the Crown, were inconsistent wit…
• Young, and Husband v. Sinclair, et al

  Mrs Janet Young and James Riddoch, her husband, sought recovery of the net expenses they had incurred in enforcing payment of an annuity due under a heritable bond. Mrs Janet Sinclair, her husband James Smith, William I…
• Sinclair & Pringle v. Smith, et al

  Sir John Sinclair of Ulster and Alexander Pringle pursued Fraser Smith, Christian and Jacobina Smith, Peter Sinclair, and George Brock for proportional relief from annuity payments secured upon the pursuers' heritable s…
• William Graham v. The Creditors of Harry Graham

  William Graham, as heir of entail of the Hourston estate, challenged the claims of Harry Graham’s creditors, maintaining that their debts were invalid by reason of post-entail timing and defective adjudications. He furt…
• Barry, et al v. Incorporation of Weavers, et al

  The Reverend Mr George Barry and the remanent members of the Kirk-session of Kirkwall and St Ola defended against a petition by the Incorporation of Weavers, Hammermen, Taylors, and Shoemakers of Kirkwall to alter Lord …
• Graham and Rowland v. Dundas and Richardson

  Robert Graham and James Rowland, as pursuers, filed an information against Dundas and Richardson arguing that the jury's verdict against them was unintelligible and therefore could not support a sentence of condemnation…
• Proctor v. Carnegy

  Patrick Proctor pursued an action against Sir David Carnegie to establish the validity of a sasine, maintaining that the seisin was legally complete without a commission from Lord Strathmore and that the freeholders and…
• James Stewart v. Alexander Scot

  James Stewart, as pursuer, submitted a revised case against Alexander Scot, the defender. Based on the single document cataloged for this case.
• Dundas v. Thomson 1 of 2
• Earl of Rothes v. Shepherd

  Alexander Shepherd, a tenant farmer, rented land in Begg from the Earl of Rothes. After failing to pay a year's rent, Shepherd sought a bill of suspension from the court to avoid getting evicted, claiming that the time…
• Davidson v. Elphinstone

  Robert Hill, as the agent of the Honourable Charles Elphinstone, Captain of the Royal Navy, claimed property rights of Eastern Glenboig, otherwise known as Endboig, with the mill, mill-lands, and other land (County of S…
• Buchannans v. Gray and Hall

  Alexander and Jean Buchanan initiated a ranking and sale of land that had belonged to Robert Hall of Fulbar. The land was possessed by John Farquhar-Gray of Kilmardinny and Jean Hall, each of whom claimed to have a heri…
• David Fowler v. Andrew Reid

  Complainers David Fowler and James Miller alleged that an election in Kilrenny was tainted by corrupt practices designed to instate officials who would support Robert Alexander for a seat in parliament. Fowler and Mille…
• George Trail v. Thomas Lyell

  Petitioner George Trail exhibited a libel charging Thomas Lyell, minister at Lady, with fornication, attempted rape, attempted assassination, and other crimes. Trail, who was both the minister of Dunnet and a heritor in…
• Charles Addison and Sons v. William Duguid and Others

  In February 1791, the ship Leviathan, sailed from Borrowstounness for Greenland on a whaling expedition. The vessel's owners, Charles Addison and Sons, took out an insurance policy with William Duguid, Andrew M'Kenzie, …
• Gordon v. Traill

  William Gordon and others, as pursuers, presented a reclaiming note against an interlocutor pronounced by Lord Mackenzie in their action against the defender Traill. Based on the single document cataloged for this case.