Respondents defend Balfour estate marriage-settlement, claiming parties could convey it to second son upon birth, rejecting petitioners’ entail-bar claim.
Petitioners reclaim interlocutor upholding 1765 disposition of Balfour estate to defender, arguing marriage contract’s devolution clause overrides later settlements.
November 30, 1797 Answers by Thomas Hamilton, Treasurer for the Poor of Avondale, to the petition of the Reverend Mr John Scott, asserting that the justices had jurisdiction and the decree was regular.
Petitioner Sir William Eliott seeks to reclaim an interlocutor denying his claim to L. 50:10s. paid to writer Thomas Tod, arguing the account was not prescribed and falls outside triennial prescription scope.