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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.
Bothwel
v.
The Bishop of Orkney
1583 .Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
The Bishop of Orkney having obtained a decreet against an uncle of his own called Bothwel, this Bothwel got that same decreet reduced thereafter upon this reason:—That he, being out of the country, in Almain, animo remanendi, where he had dwelt for the space of 15 years, it was not enough to summon him upon sixty days; but he should have been summoned so that the same might have come to his knowledge.
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