Grass Glebe.-
In the selection of any individual lands, out of which to design a grass glebe to the minister-(1.) Held, that kirk lands, though for sometime turned into culture as arable land, were to be designed in preference to other kirk lands in pasture at a greater distance from the manse. Also, (2.) Held, that the minister had a right to insist on such designation, though the proprietor of the arable land had agreed, in a division of a common within the parish, to give the minister the right of pasture, for one horse and two cows, in lieu of grass glebe, and the minister had enjoyed this right on the part of the common allocated to that heritor, for time immemorial.
[1770] UKHL 2 – Paton – 222
Bailii
Scotland
Ecclesiastical
Updated: 13 January 2022; Ref: scu.561673