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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.
The Laird of Gallowsheils
v.
Walter Scott of Harden
1626 .Nov. Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
Gallowsheils charged Walter Scott of Harden, for fulfilling his part of a contract of marriage, by which he was obliged to employ £10,000 upon land or annual-rent, to his son Hugh Scott, and the charger's daughter, by the advice of the charger. He suspended, because his son and his wife had discharged him, as having received payment of the said £10,000. The Lords found the letters orderly proceeded, except the suspension could prove the money to be employed conform to the contract of marriage.
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