Empowering the Court of Session to sell parts of the estate of Crieve (Dumfries and Roxburgh) for the discharge of debts and burdens, settling the estate of Murrayfield and others (Dumfries) and vesting in Thomas Beattie, in lieu, parts of the estate of C Act 1831
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1831 c. 2 |
ANNO PRIMO & SECUNDO
GULIELMI IV. REGIS.
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Cap.
2.
An Act to empower the Judges of the Court of
Session in Scotland to take an Account of the
Debts and Burdens affecting and that may be
made to affect the Entailed Estate of Crieve,
and others, in the Counties of Dumfries and
Roxburgh, and to sell such Part of the said
Estate as may be sufficient to discharge the said
Debts and Burdens; and likewise for settling
and securing the Lands and Estate of Murray-
field,
and others, in the said County of Dumfries,
to and in favour of Thomas Beattie of Crieve,
Esquire, and the Series of Heirs entitled to
take by a certain Deed of Entail made by
Thomas
Beattie of
Crieve,
Esquire, now deceased,
.and under the Conditions and Limitations con-
tamed in the said Deed; and for vesting in lieu
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Entail of
Crieve made
by Thomas
Beattie
Esquire,
deceased,
dated 4tli
May 1822.
1°
& 2° GULIELMI IV. Cap.2.
thereof certain Parts of the Estate of
Crieve
in
the said
Thomas Beattie
Esquire, and his Heirs
and Assigns, in Fee Simple. [30th July 1831.]
W
HEREAS
Thomas Beattie
Esquire, of
Crieve,
deceased, by
Disposition and Deed of Entail bearing Date the Fourth
Day of May One thousand eight hundred and tswenty-
two,
and registered in the Books of Council and Session the Twenty-
ninth Day of
December
One thousand eight hundred and twenty-
seven, did, for the Causes therein specified, give, grant, and dispone
to
himself;
whom failing, to
Thomas Beattie
his Son, then residing
at Yetbyre, procreated between him and the now deceased Helen
Johnstone,
Daughter of the late
Robert Johnstone
of
Over
Courance,
and the Heirs Male of the Body of the said
Thomas
Beattie; whom
failing, to the Heirs Female of his Body; whom failing, to Jane
Beattie, Daughter procreated betwixt the said deceased Thomas
Beattie
and the said
Helen
Johnstone,
then residing at Yetbyre, and
the Heirs Male of her Body; whom failing, to the Heirs Female of
her Body; whom failing, to John Bell of
Dunnabie,
only Son pro-
created of the Marriage betwixt the deceased
Isobel Anne
Beattie,
the said deceased
Thomas Beattie's
Daughter, and the also deceased
Richard
Bell of
Dunnabie,
and the Heirs Male of his the said John
Bell's Body; whom failing, to the Heirs Female of his Body;
whom
failing, to
Helen
Bell,
Daughter procreated of
the said
Marriage
betwixt the said Isobel Anne Beattie and the said Richard Bell,
Spouse of
James
Hope Stewart Esquire, residing at Gilknbierigg;
whom failing, to
Thomas
Stewart their second Son, and the Heirs
Male of his Body ; whom failing, to the Heirs Female of his Body;
whom failing, to
William Stewart
the eldest Son of the said Helen
Bell and
James
Hope
Stewart,
and the Heirs Male of
his
Body; whom
failing, to the Heirs Female of his Body; whom failing, to the other
Heirs Male of her the said Helen
BelVs
Body; whom failing, to the
Heirs Female of her Body; whom failing, to
Thomas
Elliot,
Farmer
in
Whitehouse,
in Mr. Scotfs of HardenEstate,
Roxburghshire,
and
the Heirs Male of his Body; whom failing, to the Heirs Male and
Female descending of their Bodies; whom failing, to
Alexander
Hay
Borthwick
in Hopsrigg, Nephew of
Margaret Borthwick
his .thelsaid
Thomas Beattie's
Spouse, and the Heirs Male of his Body; whom
failing, to the Heirs Female of his Body; whom failing, to any other
Heir or Heirs, Person or Persons, to be named by the deceased
Thomas Beattie
in any Nomination or other Deed to be executed by
him at any Time during his Life ; and failing of such Nomination
and of the Persons so to be named and their Heirs, then to his own
nearest Heirs and Assignees whomsoever, heritably and irredeemably,
the Heir Male always succeeding in preference and to the Exclusion
of Heirs Female, and the eldest Heir Female and the Descendants of
her Body excluding Heirs Portioners, and succeeding without
Division through the whole Course of the Female Succession,, and
the Daughter or Heir Female of the Body of the Heir who was last
in Possession of
the
said
Thomas Beattie's
Lands and Estate (whether
such Heir was served Heir of Tailzie or not,) and-the Heirs of the
Body of such Daughter or Heir Female, succeeding
always
in prefe-
rence
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