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.
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In a reduction of a decreet, the summons and executions being craved to be produced now in secunda instantia, and after fourteen years' space, because the pursuer was never summoned to the giving of the decreet,—the Lords would not astrict either the defender or the clerk to produce them after so long a time; but thought the decreet that bore the compearance of parties sufficient.
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