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[1739] 5 Brn 679      

Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, collected by JAMES BURNETT, LORD MONBODDO.
Subject_2 MONBODDO.

Magistrates of -
v.
Kirk-Session

Date: 6 December 1739

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[Elch., No. 1, Kirk-session.]

The question here was about the explication of an Act of Council, by which the election of a precentor was to be by the Kirk-session, with advice and consent of the Council; whether these words, with advice and consent, imported a negative in the election, or only a simple power of consenting and reducing the election if an unfit person was chosen?

The Lords found, That these words implied a negative to the Council upon the election made by the Kirk-session, but that the latter could, by an action, force the Council to consent, if they could not show reasonable grounds of their dissent; in the same way as a woman, when she is left a provision upon condition she marry with consent of certain persons, can force, by process, these persons to consent to her marriage, unless they can show good reasons for not consenting.

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