Kay's Edinburgh portraits : a series of anecdotal biographies chiefly of Scotchmen . ^. ANDREW DALZEL, 221 obtain subsequent to the date ot the sale; probably not anticipatingthat the practice of granting augmentation to the stipends of the clergy-would be extended as it has been done. In process of time, variousaugmentations of stipend were obtained by the incumbents of theparish of Crichton. The proprietors of the estate of Crichton calledupon Captain Justice, as representing the granter of the disposition ordeed of conveyance, to relieve them from the share of increased stipendthus a
Kay's Edinburgh portraits : a series of anecdotal biographies chiefly of Scotchmen . ^. ANDREW DALZEL, 221 obtain subsequent to the date ot the sale; probably not anticipatingthat the practice of granting augmentation to the stipends of the clergy-would be extended as it has been done. In process of time, variousaugmentations of stipend were obtained by the incumbents of theparish of Crichton. The proprietors of the estate of Crichton calledupon Captain Justice, as representing the granter of the disposition ordeed of conveyance, to relieve them from the share of increased stipendthus allocated upon them. This gave rise to a long and expensivelaw suit, in which Captain Justice argued that the warrandice whichhis father had given was not perpetual, but limited to the enduranceof certain leases of tiends originally granted by Mr. Hepburn of Hum-ble, which had long since expired; and the Court of Session decidedthe cause in favour of Captain Justice. An appeal, however, wastaken to the House of Lords, and the judgment was reversed, bywhich a liability of upwards of ^
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