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Lord Chancellor Thurlow rules on Scottish election validity, affirming feudal estate voters’ rights under 1681 statute, rejecting wadsetting’s impact on eligibility.

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Memorial of William George Adam, asserting that his liferent qualification is unexceptionable and free from any confidential engagement or influence

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Adam challenges Drummond's right to vote as a liferent, arguing it lacks real estate and violates 1681 Act's intent to restrict voting to substantial property holders.

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Answers by W. G. Adam to the interrogatories put to him as preciſe as poſſible, asserting his vote was entirely free from obligation or influence

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Answers by W. G. Adam to the interrogatories put to him as preciſe as poſſible, asserting his vote was entirely free from obligation or influence

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Respondent, a Royal Navy captain stationed in South America, answers interrogatories and denies feudal ties to Lord Keith, asserting independent freehold rights.

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Freeholders of Kincardine vote to enroll Charles Fleeming and William George Adam as freeholders despite objections over nominal life-rent titles, while condemning attempts to revive feudal voting rights.

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Replies by the defenders, arguing that their title cannot be separated from that of the Honourable Captain Fleeming, and that both claims derive from the same charter and were presented jointly in the freeholder's court.

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George Harley Drummond and George Silver challenge Captain Charles Fleeming’s freeholder enrolment, claiming his title is nominal and fictitious, and that the statute allows any freeholder on the roll to contest it.

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Respondent refers to prior argument against William Farquhar and consents to joint consideration with related case.