Servitudes – OF Bleaching – Of Foot Road – Of Taking Water – Prescription – Use and Possession – A servitude of bleaching linen sustained; also a servitude in favour of the inhabitants of a burgh, of taking water from the wells in a neighbouring heritor’s property for family use, as well as a servitude acquired by immemorial use of a right to a foot road to these wells. Also that the burgh, as a corporate body, by the charter of the burgh, had a sufficient title to acquire such servitudes, by prescription and immemorial use and possession of its inhabitants.
[1780] UKHL 2 – Paton – 554, (1780) 2 Paton 554
Bailii
Scotland
Land
Updated: 12 January 2022; Ref: scu.561498