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[1542] 1 Brn 114
Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION reported by SIR ROBERT SPOTISWOODE OF PENTLAND.
Subject_2 Such of the following Decision as are of a Date prior to about the year 1620, must have been taken by Spotiswoode from some of the more early Reporters. The Cases which immediately follow have no Date affixed to them by Spotiswoode.
probation by writ
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One having pursued another for accusing him of theft wrongously, of which he was acquit by an assize, and therefore to pay him ten pounds, conform to the Act of Parliament;—the Lords would not admit the judge and bailie, and certain other honest men, that were upon the assize, to prove that the other accused him; but found quod acta judicialia probari debent per scripta.
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