Mr William Graham: ...in regard to foreshore. In the first place, under an Act of the Scottish Parliament of 1617—which is going rather a long way back—the prescriptive period was fixed at 40 years, but under the Conveyancing (Scotland) Act, 1874, continued by a similar Act of 1924, that period was reduced in Scotland to 20 years, which comes to this—that very often by trifling acts on the foreshore, such...