Legal Subject: Session-Clerk

Case Date Legal Subject Abstract
Nisbet, et al v. The kirk-session of West-kirk 1773 Election contest, Heritor, Session-Clerk, Election, Salmon Fishing, Succession Sir John Nisbet and other heritors petitioned the Court against the kirk-session of West-kirk (St Cuthberts) for unilaterally electing a schoolmaster-clerk to serve as session-clerk and precentor without heritor consent. The kirk-session answered, admitting that it possessed no right to elect these parish officers without the consent of the heritors.