Subject_1 MINOR NON TENETUR, &c. Subject_2 SECT. III.
No privilege where the process is founded upon the predecessor's deed. - Nor where action was commenced against the defunct. - Nor where the Minor is the first provoker.
The Queen's Advocate v. Wemyss
Date: 1 March 1546 Case No. No 32.
The brocard was found not to take place in a reduction, upon the dole or fraud of the minor's predecessor.
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The Lords decerned David Wemyss, second son to the Laird of Wemyss, to answer upon the improving of his instrument of sasine of the lands of K, for which the Queen's Advocate called him to produce the same, to hear and see it civilly improven, notwithstanding the said David's procurator alleged, that he was “minor annis et agebatur hic super hæreditate sua, et annullatione suæ sasinæ hæreditariæ, et de jure Scotiæ minor non tenetur placitare; nisi in quatuor casibus relatis in Regia Majestate Scot. Domini hanc allegationem repulerunt ratione iniquitatis ejusdem; nam esset iniquum quod minor ex suo suorumve dolo et fraude, in conservatione falsi instrumenti repertaret commodum, et quare periculum erat in mora; quia, si probatio deferretur in perfectam ejus ætatem, forte possent interea testes instrumentarii perire, et sic instrumentum iniquum posset improbari, et ideo ut veritas illucesserit. Interlocuti sunt Domini, ut supra, licet hic casus consequenter auferat minori hæreditatem, viz. instrumento probato simulat. Extat practic. contra Reginam, quæ decreta fuit per interlocutoriam Dominorum Concilii, respondere super retractatione resignationis Domini de Dalbeyt facti ad perpetuam remanentiam in manibus illustrissmi quondam patris sui Jacobi quinti Scotorum Regis, per Dominum de Dalbeyt, in qua causa exceptio minoris ætatis Reginæ fuit repulsa.”
