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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: Lewis Somervile
v.
The Laird of Edmonston
22 March 1626 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
Lewis Somervile pursuing a declarator of the Laird of Edmonston's escheat upon a horning executed at his instance, the want of three touts was alleged against the horning. But the Lords sustained it to be proven by witnesses.
Page 147.
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