§ MR. J. G. WEIR (ROSS and Cromarty)I beg to ask the Lord Advocate whether the Crown has the right to the foreshore of the Glebe of Kintail, and thence to the head of Loch Duich; if not, will he state to whom the right belongs?
§ * THE LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. GRAHAM MURRAY, Buteshire)As the hon. Member is aware, the Crown is proprietor of the whole foreshore of the Kingdom of Scotland, except in so far as it has passed by express disposition or prescriptive possession into the hands of private proprietors. I have no information about the locality in question; and I am not able, nor should I in any case be willing, to advise the hon. Member as to the ownership of rights over a specified territory, seeing that the rights of the public in regard to the foreshore are the same whether it be the property of the Crown or of a subject.