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Court directs parties to prepare revised cases for review by succeeding Lord Ordinary or Court, emphasizing critical issues of propinquity and age evidence.

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William Campbell challenges a summary suspension by Cromarty Justices for trading without a licence, arguing the petition was legally defective and the warrant ultra vires.

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Court finds warrant of imprisonment invalid for lacking statutory authority and ambiguous terms.

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Court sustains jurisdiction over suspension case involving imprisonment without lawful warrant, reserves expenses question, and notes lack of specified trading locus in Cromarty.

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Claimants seek Lady Nisbett’s inheritance and annuity from Sir John Nisbett’s estate, disputing her foreign birth and prior alimony as disqualifying.

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Lady Nisbett, a South Carolina-born widow, claims her terce and jus relictae from her late husband Sir John Nisbett’s Scottish estate, disputing that a prior settlement of £2000 and annual alimony discharged only future support, not her legal inheritance rights.

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Trustee appointment and estate disposition by Sir John Nisbett, 1813, contested by Lady Nisbett over her alienage claim to terce rights.

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Claimants, daughters of John Nisbett, seek reimbursement for enforcement costs of a bond secured by his life insurance, now recovered, and assert priority over trustees for those expenses.

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Trustees seek reimbursement for trust expenses including education, bond interest, and commissions, with claimants prioritized for recovery.

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Claimant as assignee of John Alexander Nisbett asserts residuary rights to estate of Dean under Sir John Nisbett’s settlements, while defendant objects and seeks to join multiplepoinding proceedings.