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Double avail of marriage

offered by the superior; but this was modified to three years' rent of the vassal's free estate, Old Scots Law.

Bairns, part, a third part of a deceased's free movables, debt deducted, if his wife survives, and a half if she does not, due to his children, … movables, debt deducted, if his wife survives, and a half if she does not, due to his children, Scots Law. See LEGITIM and REASONABLE PARTS.

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Sorehon, or sorn

he came down among the tenants with his followers by way of contempt called Gilliwitfitts, and lived on free quarters. See Bell's Scots Law Dict … Sorehon, or sorn, an arbitrary exaction, formerly existing in Scotland and Ireland. Whenever a chieftain had a mind to revel, he came down among the tenants with his

Irish and Scots Courts' Judgments

English county Court, under the Inferior Courts Judgments Extension Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 31). Irish Free State judgments of the Courts may not be so enforced under the Judgments Extension Act, 1868, since references … Irish and Scots Courts' Judgments. As regards Northern Ireland and Scottish judgments, a judg-ment of a Superior Court of Northern Ireland

Peer

peer, although the status of Irish representative peers is apparently undecided owing to the establishment of the Irish Free State. The king cannot create a dignity with a mesne between baron and baronets (Co. Litt. 16, b, … same rank; a member of the House of Lords, as either Duke, Marquis, Earl, Viscount, or Baron, or Scots or presumably Irish representative peer, although the status of Irish representative peers is apparently undecided owing to the

Electoral franchise

by the burgage holders (see BURGAGE TENURE), in others by those paying what corresponded to local rates (see SCOT AND LOT), in others by the potwallers (q.v.), and in others these different qualifications, or some of them, … of the changes up to 1884 in (a) Counties, and (b) Boroughs is as follows: (a) Originally the freeholders elected the members for the county: later, residence was made an additional qualification. In the fifteenth century the

Tenure

mode of holding property. The only tenures in land now existing with a few unimpor-tant exceptions are (1) free and common socage in fee-simple, including enfranchised copyhold, which is subject to paramount incidents; and (2) a term … in the 12th Sch., s. 5, of the Law of Property Act, 1925. See COPYHOLD; ESCHEAT. Terce, thirds; Scots term. See WIDOW'S TERCE. Tenure means the period for which an incumbent of office holds it, Union of

Scotland and Ireland

heard by the House of Lords under s. 3 of the App. Jur. Act, 1876: see also Irish Free State (Consequential Provisions) Act, 1922 (Session 2), Sch. I., 6 (3); but appeals from the Supreme Court of … Scotland and Ireland. As to service of writ, by leave of judge, upon a defendant resident in Scotland or

University

of Aberdeen, St. Andrews, Edinburgh, and Glasgow. In northern Ireland, the Queen's University of Belfast; in the Irish Free State, the University of Dublin (and Trinity College), and the National University of Ireland. Abolition of Tests.-The (English) … Geo. 5, c. 25). There is also the University of Wales (see University of Wales Act, 1902). The Scottish Universities are those of Aberdeen, St. Andrews, Edinburgh, and Glasgow. In northern Ireland, the Queen's University of Belfast;

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