To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-15753 by Mr Jim Wallace on 11 July 2001, whether it supports the use by the Scottish Law Commission in paragraph 1.5 of its Report on Boundary Division Walls (footnote 7) of the Stair Memorial Encyclopaedia (Volume 18, paragraph 223) to justify the commission's opinion that the law on March Fence Type Divisions had been changed from ownership "pro-indiviso" to ownership to mid-line only ("ad medium filum") when at the time of publication of this encyclopaedia in 1993 the commission itself (a) had in a letter to Mr David Lambie MP in October 1990 stated that research commissioned by itself had shown that case law on the subject was confused, consisting of essentially two lines of decision which cannot be satisfactorily reconciled, (b) had issued in June 1992 a consultation paper on Mutual Boundary Walls which confirmed this confusion in this aspect of the law but suggested that holding as "pro-indiviso" common property should be confirmed and asking inter alia whether legislation to clarify and settle the matter was required, (c) stated that the matter was still open and under consideration, including the consultee responses, when the Encyclopaedia was published in 1993 and (d) issued in December 1990, a discussion paper (No. 91) on the law of the tenement in which the proposals supported the use of "pro-indiviso" common property for walls dividing property ownership, which in the commission's own words 'met with general support from consultees'.