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be paid for the Purchase thereof which after various meetings held
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for that purpose was at length effected and that too in the most amicable
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The Jury this day viewed the Premes and afterwards adjourned
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where they were attended by Mr. Evered
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deced (vide the
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Abstract of the Title with the Recorder's opinion thereon herewith left
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like wise an Infant who agreed to
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accept for the Purchase of the before mentioned Premes the Sum of
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£205 being £53 more than they were estimated at by the City
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Surveyor
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The Clause in the Act directing inter alia that in
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the case of a defective Title the Court of Mayor and Aldermen
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solely are empowered to order the Sum assessed by the Jury to be paid
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into the Bank as therein particularly mentioned altho the Premises
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are in the
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It is therefore submitted that the
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Court of Session had no further or other Jurisdiction herein than that
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Judgment must its presumed be applied for in order that the Court
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