Whether inferior Courts may review their own Decrees.
William Leys v. John Murray
Date: 29 January 1611 Case No. No 212.
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The Commissaries cannot be judges in reduction of their own decreets, but only the Lords of Session, to whom belongs the reduction of all decreets of infesior judges. Commissaries may reduce confirmations of testaments past before themselves.
Fol. Dic. v. 1. p. 501. Haddington, MS. No 2129.
*** A judgment in conformity with the first part of this case was pronounced 26th January 1677, Cowan against Procurator Fiscal of the Commissariot of Glasgow, No 202. p. 7486.