Sutherland

Cases connected to this place (18)

• Ritchie v. Lauder

  The pursuer Ritchie, in the interest of the creditors of Peter Logan, sought to set aside a preference granted to Colin Lauder, surgeon of the Sutherland Regiment of Fencibles, as fraudulent. Lauder petitioned the Court…
• Mackay v. Houston

  Æneas Mackay petitioned the Court to alter its interlocutor refusing his inrolment as a freeholder of Sutherland, while Hugh Houston objected that Mackay had failed to specify whether he claimed as a wadsetter or absolu…
• Murdo Mackenzie of Ardross v. Thomas Houston of Creich

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• Countess of Sutherland v. Officers of State

  The Countess of Sutherland pursued the Officers of State to determine whether rents derived from salmon fishings were liable to vicarage teinds. The defenders argued that such rents were not teindable and that deduction…
• Cowan v. M'Intosh and Others

  Robert Cowan petitioned the Court to overturn an interlocutor that had dismissed his process against Mary and Katharine Gordon, the exposers of lands in Blythwoodholme. M'Intosh and others, as respondents, opposed the s…
• Elizabeth and Isobel Grays, Daughters of John Gray of Rogart, deceased v. John Wood, and Others, Creditors of said John Gray

  Elizabeth and Isobel Gray, daughters of John Gray, inherited the lands of Rogart, which their mother Rachel Monro had received from her own father. After her marriage to John Gray, Monro transferred legal ownership of t…
• Lord Reay v. James Anderson and Others

  The parties to this case disputed whether a tutor had the power to grant a lease, or "tack," extending beyond his time in office. Lieutenant General Alexander Mackay, the sole surviving tutor for Hugh, Lord Reay, grante…
• Countess of Sutherland v. Dunbar

  In a ranking and sale, William Dunbar of Fulfordlees submitted a claim based on a heritable bond of corroboration. The petitioners objected to Dunbar’s claim on the ground that the seisin (possession of land by freehold…
• Robert Home-Gordon v. Hugh Rose

  Robert Home-Gordon of Embo and his co-pursuers petitioned the Court to expunge Hugh Rose of Aitnoch from the roll of freeholders of Sutherland, alleging that Rose's qualification was nominal and fictitious. Rose answere…
• Robert Home-Gordon v. John Gordon

  Robert Home-Gordon of Embo and others petitioned the Court to expunge John Gordon of Carroll from the roll of freeholders of Sutherland, objecting to his qualification for the roll. Gordon answered, asserting his eligib…
• Robert Home-Gordon v. Captain Donald Matheson

  Robert Home-Gordon, George M'Kay, and others pursued Captain Donald Matheson, seeking to have his name removed from the roll of freeholders of Sutherland on the ground that he lacked a valid freeholder qualification. Th…
• Robert Home-Gordon v. Captain Gordon Clunes

  Robert Home-Gordon of Embo, George M'Kay of Bigbouse, and other freeholders of Sutherland petitioned to expunge Captain Gordon Clunes from the county roll of freeholders, challenging the validity of his freehold qualifi…
• Robert Home-Gordon v. Captain Alexander Sutherland

  Robert Home-Gordon and others sought to expunge Captain Alexander Sutherland's name from the roll of freeholders of Sutherland, challenging the validity of his freehold qualification. Sutherland maintained that his qual…
• Robert Home-Gordon v. Lieutenant-General James Grant of Ballindalloch

  Robert Home-Gordon of Embo, George M'Kay of Bighouse, and other freeholders of Sutherland pursued Lieutenant-General James Grant of Ballindalloch to expunge him from the county roll of freeholders on the ground that his…
• 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…
• Petition of the Countess of Sutherland

  Elizabeth Countess of Sutherland and George Granville Leveson Gower, now Sutherland, petitioned the Court to permit them to sist themselves as parties to a question concerning the recording of the entail of the Sutherla…
• James Sutherland v. Elizabeth Countess of Sutherland

  James Sutherland pursued Elizabeth Countess of Sutherland and her Tutors regarding wadset lands of Pronsie and Evelicks, disputing whether the lands had been redeemed, whether the wadsetting of Evelicks was lawful, and …
• Alexander-James Grant v. Countess of Sutherland

  Alexander-James Grant petitioned the Court to alter its recent interlocutor concerning the ranking of creditors. The Countess of Sutherland and her Tutors answered the petition, defending the existing determination of p…