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.
1583 .February .Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
One may pass from an exception or reply admitted to his probation, if there be no term assigned for proving thereof; because found that there is no litiscontestation, unless a term be assigned. Communis tamen est Doctorum opinio, quod exceptione peremptoria proposita, quæ tollit libellum et condemnationem litis, semper sit litiscontestatio.
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