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Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR ALEXANDER GIBSON, OF DURIE.
Date: The Laird of Lagg
v.
The Bailie of Hallywood
24 July 1622 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
In an action of double poinding, betwixt the Laird of Lagg, as Sheriff of Dumfries, and the Bailie of Hallywood, for an unlaw of blood, the Lords preferred the bailie to the sheriff, because the bailie's decreet was given before the sheriff's; albeit the sheriff had done the first diligence, by the first citation and first process; by reason the bailie's decreet was long before the sheriff's, as said is.
Act. Belshes and Cunningham. Alt. ——. Gibson, Clerk. Page 33.
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