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Respondents defend deeds executed under 1684 entail, asserting they comply with terms and petitioners misrepresent evidence.

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Respondents defend a fair assessment split under the 1817 Act, arguing heritors and tenants share equal tax burden based on property and personal income.

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Respondent challenges poor rate assessment citing illegal exemptions, misapplied rentals, and procedural/statutory flaws.

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Counsel for the Earl of Rothes seek guidance on rights, timber, aliment, compromise, legal process, entail clauses, name usage, and validity of consent from Lord Milsintoun in a dispute over estate provisions.

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Respondents challenge the validity of testamentary provisions for the Countess Dowager and her daughter, arguing they exceed the entail’s limits and were improperly consented to.

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Chargers Weir and Barr defend against Gammell’s claim that poor funds were misused for legal costs, asserting £79:10:6 was legitimately credited to heritors for pre-1817 arrears, not diverted to litigation.

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Petitioners seek to overturn an interlocutor rejecting their claim that Lord Milsintown’s consent to estate provisions was valid and free from improper motive, requesting diligence to obtain withheld documents.

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William Weir and John Barr, Poors Rates Collectors, reply to James Gammell’s condescendence, contending special objections are incompetent and unappealed, and assessors had no power to grant partial indulgences.

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James Gammell challenges poor rate collectors for Greenock over alleged irregular assessments and exemptions.

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James Gammell petitions to alter a recent interlocutor, arguing personal property shouldn’t be assessable for Poor’s rates in a landward parish where the owner doesn’t reside.