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Respondent defends Mrs Ord's freehold interest against complainer's claim she held only a liferent, asserting fee vested in her by deed and rebutting legal objections.

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Respondent defends his freeholder qualification by asserting his right to vote via courtesy despite his wife's titles barring his jus mariti.

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Petition of Andrew Houston asking the Court to overturn the refusal of the freeholders of Dumbarton to inroll him as a freeholder, on grounds that an objection based on Peter Buchanan's claim was legally baseless and factually erroneous.

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Complainer contests rejection of his freehold qualification using Lenox retour, claiming its legal validity was wrongly disputed at a Dumbartonshire election meeting.

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Captain Napier’s answers to Robert and John Brownings’ petition, denying exemption from impress based on their roles as master and mate of a vessel under admiralty protection.

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Browning brothers, former master and mate of the 50-ton ship Liberty, seek to alter prior court order, asserting their legal immunity from impressment and that substitute seamen satisfied bail obligations.

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Answers by William Welsh, Skinner in Dalkeith, to the petition of Margaret Lumsden relict and Henry Macveagh son, defending their liability as cautioners for a fraudulent messenger.

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Complainants object to respondent's seisin validity due to lack of publication of assignation and precept; respondent defends by citing antiquity but complainants argue formalities are essential and non-suppliable.

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Respondent asserts continued eligibility by claiming he retained sufficient freehold qualification despite conveying liferents of superiority.

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Petition of Sir John Scott of Ancrum and Patrick Kerr of Abbotrule asking the Court to overturn the freeholders' decision to restrict Sir Gilbert Elliot of Minto's qualification to certain lands.