“Finds that the pursuer has right to the Inch of St. Silvanus upon the positive prescription, and decern and declare accordingly.”
“That the defender has condescended on acts of homologation sufficient to remove the objection, that the marginal notes in the marriage contract 1687 were not tested in terms of the act 1681; but in respect of the infeftment in the person of Sir Thomas Bruce, on the precept of clare 1721, and of the infeftment in the person of Sir John (the respondent's father) on the precept of clare 1740; and of their possession of the island of St. Silvanus upon said infeftments for more than forty years, find that the pursuer, as heir to Sir John, has right to the said island in virtue of the positive prescription.”