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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.
Date: The Earl of Annandale
v.
Sir William Scot of Harden
15 January 1624 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
In the action pursued by the Earl of Annandale, donator to Simon Scot of Bonnington, his escheat, against Sir William Scot of Harden, who had apprised certain of the rebel's lands;—the Lords found, that the Act of Parliament anent comprisings, made 1621, about the having no further right to the mails and duties of comprised lands than will correspond with the annual-rent of the sum for which the comprising is led, should be extended to all comprisings at the time of the said act, unredeemed, howbeit led and deduced long before.
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