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Earl of Dumfries v Robert Menzies. [1759] 5 Brn 872 (15 June 1759)
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[1759] 5 Brn 872
Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION. Collected By JAMES BURNETT, LORD MONOBODDO.
Subject_2 COMPLAINT FROM STIRLINGSHIRE.
Earl of Dumfries
v.
Robert Menzies
Date: 15 June 1759
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In this case it was the unanimous opinion of the Court, that if, in a process of reduction and improbation, an apparent heir was called, and a decreet of certification recovered against him, that certification was good against everybody coming afterwards to have right to that subject, whether creditor or any succeeding heir; for they thought it was not necessary that the heir should have completed his title in order to be a defender in that process, because nothing was to be concluded against him, nor any subject to be evicted from him, but only a writing to be declared false and forged.
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