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[1600] 5 Brn 604
Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION. reported by ALEXANDER TAIT, CLERK OF SESSION, one of the reporters for the faculty.
Subject_2 SUMMARY APPLICATION.
Witherspoons, Petitioner
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Upon the statute 1696, c. 8, summary application is competent for obliging
tutors and curators nominate to find caution, or removing them as suspect. Accordingly, upon a complaint of this nature, given in by Mary and Janet Witherspoons, their husbands and children, interested in the settlement of their brother, James Witherspoon, who had named tutors and curators to their said children, the Lords, December 4th 1774, removed the said tutors and curators as suspect, and discharged them from further administration of the pupils' affairs. A pactum de quota litis reduced on a summary application, Mackenzie against George Forbes, writer.—See Books of Sederunt, July 23d 1774.
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