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The Lords will relax a party at the bar, being at the horn for a civil cause, to the effect he may be witness or otherways stand in judgment, and supersede the execution against the party denounced for a short time. But if he be denounced for a crime, they will not relax him, or give him supersedere, or person to be witness, or give his oath.
Fol. Dic. v. 2. p. 83. Haddington, MS. No 291.
*** The above is the rubric. The case itself is obliterated in the MS.
