DECIDED IN

THE COURT OF SESSION,

TEIND COURT,

COURT OF EXCHEQUER,

AND

HOUSE OF LORDS.

SCOTCH COURTS, FROM NOV. 12, 1856, тo JULY 18, 1857.
HOUSE OF LORDS, FROM JULY 10, 1856, To JUNE 12, 1857.

REPORTED BY

JAMES S. MILNE, NORMAN MACPHERSON,

AND CHARLES J. SHIRREFF, ESQUIRES, ADVOCATES.

VOL. XIX.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED FOR

T. AND T. CLARK, LAW BOOKSELLERS,

AND

W. BENNING AND CO., LONDON.

M.DCCC.LVII.

JOHN HUGHES, PRINTER, 3 THISTLE STREET, EDINBURGH.

JUDGES

OF THE

COURT OF SESSION

DURING THE PERIOD OF THESE REPORTS.

FIRST DIVISION.

Lord President M'NEILL.

Lord IVORY.

Lord CURRIEHILL.

Lord DEAS.

SECOND DIVISION.

Lord Justice-Clerk HOPE.

Lord MURRAY.

Lord WOOD.

Lord CowAN.

PERMANENT LORDS ORDINARY.

Lord HANDYSIDE.

Lord BENHOLME.

Lord NEAVES.

Lord ARDMILLAN.

Lord MACKENZIE.

JAMES MONCREIFF, Esquire, Lord-Advocate.
JOHN INGLIS, Esquire, Dean of Faculty.

EDWARD F. MAITLAND, Esquire, Solicitor-General.

Anderson and Others (Blaikie's Trustees), Wilson v.

Anstruther (Macfarlane's Executor), v. Macfarlane or Mitchell and

Page

958

195

504

502

749

779

888

1087

329

700

356

39

Balderston and Husband v. Fulton,

293

Barns and Others v. Hill or Tait and Others (Barns' Trustees),

for Parish of Dalrymple),

Blair (Inspector of Poor for Parish of Dailly), Porteous (Inspector of Poor

Blantyre v. Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock Railway Company,

181

862

Blantyre, Lord, v. Jaffray,

167