Liferent. Legal instruments.
Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: The entitlement allowing the use of property owned by another, for life. Proper liferent involves only the fiar and liferenter: improper liferent is when trustees are interposed: liferent is said to be 'legal' when imposed by law and 'conventional' when only by agreement: liferent can be by reservation, when the granter gives the fee but keeps the liferent and by constitution, when the liferent is created for another and the fee is kept or disposed of elsewhere. Source: Gibb (A D). 'Students' glossary of Scottish legal terms.' (Edinburgh: W Green and Son Ltd, 1946.).
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Charter, 27 August 1554, property on the north side of North Street, Perth, granted by Robert Marsar of Ballais in favour of Walter Bunch, vicar of Botavy, and liferent, undated, from the same in favour of Isabel Bunch., 27 August 1554, undated.
Item
Identifier: Ch.15288-15289
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Comprised of: charters and sasines of property in North Street, Perth, 1544-1668 (further records of the Incorporation held in the Scottish Record Office - GD1/427 - show that by 1718 the Hammermen had acquired much of the North Street property by purchase from David Moncrieff who in turn had acquired it from Sir William Stewart of Inneruytie) and one for property in South Street, 1781. Also the oath sworn by the Perth Hammermen on the Test Act 1681, in 1682, and extracts from the Burgh...
Dates:
27 August 1554, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Miscellaneous papers relating to the Incorporation of Hammermen of Perth.
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Miscellaneous legal papers relating to properties of the Incorporation of Hammermen of Perth in Perth.
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Miscellaneous papers relating to properties of the Incorporation of Hammermen of Perth on North Street or North Gate, Perth.
Liferent sasine by Archibald Spottiswoode to his father, James Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode, of the lands of Spottiswoode and Brodiefield., 1511.
Item
Identifier: Ch.1540
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Ch.1492-1539 relate to a family of Spottiswood (most often spelt Spottiswod; also other variants) in Edinburgh.
Dates:
1511.