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This version of this statute is extracted from the UK Statute Law Database (SLD). It is not in the form in which it was originally enacted but is a revised version, which means that subsequent amendments to the text and other effects are incorporated with annotations.
C1Short title “The March Dykes Act 1661” given by Statute Law Revision (Scotland) Act 1964 (c. 80), Sch. 2
C2This act is listed in 12mo edition as 1661 c.41
Our soverane Lord . . . F1 with consent and advice of his Estates of Parliament . . . F1 Statuts and Ordaines that wher inclosours fall to be vpon the border of any persons inheritance the next adiacent heritor shall be at equall paines and charges in building ditching and planting that dyk which parteth their inheritance . . . F1
F1Words repealed by Statute Law Revision (Scotland) Act 1906 (c. 38)
March Dykes Act