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:11 July 1626 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
N. being constituted assignee by M. to a certain sum, chargeth the debtor therefore. Excepted, The charge was null; because the assignation was posterior to the charge, and so filius ante patrem. Replied, Ought to be repelled, in respect of the concourse of the cedent. Which was sustained.
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