“I, as administrator-in-law for my son, Alexander Oliphant Murray, as proprietor of the lands of Pitheavlis, authorize you to prepare building leases, of five acres each, for yourself and children, at the present rents, of ninety-nine years, as authorized by Act of Parliament; as also to prepare a lease to you, of nineteen years, of the quarry of Pitheavlis, at ten pounds of rent per annum, with liberty to open others, if wished, on the grounds. The building leases to be on the grounds you point out proper on the estate, and with the regular qualifications attending such leases, according to Act of Parliament; and I bind myself to implement the same when drawn out. I am,” &c.
“Finds nothing proven tending to show any alteration in the mode of occupation of Greenyards and Unthank, after Whitsunday 1822, from what previously
“Finds, that none of the documents founded on by the advocator (whether taken individually or collectively) are, even if the same had been followed by possession, sufficient to constitute a lease, binding and effectual upon the Honourable Alexander Murray, who was, at the date thereof, under the age of majority, but above the years of pupillarity: Finds, that even if the said documents could have been held, if followed by possession upon his part, to be sufficient for constituting the contract of lease between the parties, there has been no proof of such possession adduced, or offered to be brought; and that the proof led in the inferior Court is, upon this point, altogether defective and incomplete: Therefore repels the reasons of advocation, remits the cause simpliciter to the sheriff, and decerns; finds the advocator liable in expenses.”