Caithness

Cases connected to this place (10)

• The Trustees for the Creditors of John Brough v. The Heirs of Robert Selby

  The Trustees for the Creditors of John Brough pursued the Heirs of Robert Selby regarding the extent of security afforded by a heritable bond of relief granted by Brough in 1783. The Trustees contended that the bond sec…
• Budge v. Lord Henderson's Interlocutor

  Budge, as petitioner, submitted a memorial arguing that she and her predecessors had acquired an heritable right to the teinds of Toftingall by positive prescription, despite the lack of infeftment or charter. Based on …
• Carnegie v. Turnbull

  Carnegie complained of his removal from the roll of freeholders, arguing that he had departed the meeting before being called to take the trust oath and that no formal intimation had been given. Turnbull answered that C…
• David Clyne v. James Trail and David Hendersson, (Williamson's Trustees)

  David Clyne raised a summons of forthcoming against James Traill, trustee for the creditors of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Benjamin Williamson, and David Henderson, factor, to recover funds held in trust for Kenneth Fra…
• Neilson, et al v. Sinclairs

  George Neilson, Benjamin Sinclair, and other creditors of Robert Manson-Sinclair of Bridge-end pursued Mrs Henrietta Sinclair, Janet Sinclair, and their husbands regarding debts owed by the debtor, petitioning the Court…
• Creditors of Dunbar v. Grant

  Alexander Penrose Cuming and other creditors of Thomas Dunbar of Westfield had obtained an interlocutor voiding, under the 1621 Act, a bond of corroboration granted by the bankrupt to Sir James Grant of Grant, Baronet, …
• George Trail v. Thomas Lyell

  Petitioner George Trail exhibited a libel charging Thomas Lyell, minister at Lady, with fornication, attempted rape, attempted assassination, and other crimes. Trail, who was both the minister of Dunnet and a heritor in…
• Dunbar v. Sinclair

  Sir William Dunbar, Baronet, and other freeholders of Caithness, as pursuers, petitioned the Court to find that the freeholders had wrongly repelled an objection against defender Sir James Sinclair, now Earl of Caithnes…
• John Gordon v. Dugald Gilchrist

  John Gordon pursued Dugald Gilchrist to overturn the freeholders' decision expunging his name from the roll of Sutherland freeholders. Gilchrist objected that Gordon's liferent-right of superiority had been extinguished…
• Duff v. Innes

  Lauchlan Duff pursued Innes for sums due under two obligatory missives dated 1758, arguing that the defender remained liable despite a defence of septennial prescription. Based on the single document cataloged for this …