Sequestration. – A sequestration, granted of an estate, where a person was in possession by virtue of a tack from his father for payment of debts, adjudications in his person with expired legals, and a disposition from an elder brother, which, though reduced for fraud and circumvention, was still to stand as a security for the onerous cause thereof.
Presumption. – From circumstances of presumption a person is made to count and reckon for property, which with his content had formerly been conveyed by a weak elder brother to another person.
[1714] UKHL Robertson – 105, (1714) Robertson 105
Bailii
Insolvency, Scotland
Updated: 04 January 2022; Ref: scu.553476