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APPENDIX. GENERAL ABSTRACT of ACCOUNTS between Mrs Turnbull's Trustees and John and Charles Tawse, from 18th April 1804 to 1st July 1825.

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Trustees' account of debts, expenses, and burdens managed for Mrs Turnbull's estate from 1804 to 1825, including heritable obligations, legal costs, and family advances.

Mary Gordon Turnbull and Elizabeth Jane Turnbull v. John Tawse — Petition, 9 Sep 1825

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Petition of John Tawse asking the Court to alter its recent interlocutor

William Fergusson of Auchinfoul v. David Mitchell Merchant in Ayr and Hugh Mitchell of Polloss — Answers, 3 Jan 1781

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Respondents defend against petitioner’s reclaim petition challenging their preference in property rights based on adjudication and infeftment.

Petition — David Mitchell, Merchant in Ayr, and Hugh Mitchell of Pollossh

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Petitioners, creditors of William Donald, seek preference over William Ferguson’s claim in a multiple-pounding action, challenging the validity of a disputed house disposition adjudicated against Donald.

George Haldane v. Thomas Trail — Replies, 31 Jan 1781 [2]

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Mr Trail appeals his exclusion from Orkney freeholders’ roll, claiming his grandfather’s seisin instruments and special retours suffice for infeftment under statute, despite lacking chancery precepts.

APPENDIX. No. I. INVENTORY of Receipts granted by the Collector of Cess for the stewartry of Orkney to Thomas Traill of Holland, and his predecessors.

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Inventory of cess receipts for George Traill of Holland's lands in Westray, detailing payments from 1743 to 1780, including disputed valuation and protest over missing sederunt-book records.

Petition and Complaint — George Haldane, Esq. of Gleneagles

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Petition of George Haldane asking the Court to overturn the freeholders' admission of Thomas Traill to the parliamentary roll on grounds of defective titles and insufficient valuation.

William Bisset and Alexander Bisset v. David Ballardie, Mrs Cecilia Mackenzie and Alexander Muir-Mackenzie — Answers, 7 Oct 1780 [3]

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David Ballardie, Mrs Cecilia Mackenzie, and Alexander Muir-Mackenzie answer William and Alexander Bisset’s petition, denying their claim to be freed from thirlage and calling it factually inaccurate.

William Bisset and Alexander Bisset v. David Ballardie, Mrs Cecilia Mackenzie and Alexander Muir-Mackenzie — Answers, 7 Oct 1780

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Answers by David Ballardie, Mrs Cecilia Mackenzie, Alexander Muir-Mackenzie, and George Muir to the petition of William Bisset and Alexander Bisset, asserting that the Lord Ordinary's judgment is well founded and the petitioners' objections are improper

James Cuming v. Anna Garden — Information, 11 Dec 1780

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Pursuer claims heirship to brother’s lands, disputing defender’s liferent under a post-marital deed voided by dissolution within year and day.

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