Note 320 — Chapter IX · The State.

Quon Attach. 18. Act. Parl. Scot., p. 91–92. So when it was proved to the satisfaction of a similar jury that Crane, his son Sweyn, and his grandson Simon, had held, uninterruptedly, the office of Janitor of Montrose Castle, with the lands attached to it (originally a grant of William to Crane), the five daughters of Simon—the fourth in descent—were pronounced heiresses in fee.—Ib., p. 90. The invariable three descents appear to have conferred hereditary right.