[1626] Mor 12494
Subject_1 PROOF.
Subject_2 DIVISION III. Public Instrument, how far Probative.
Subject_3 SECT. I. Messengers Execution.
Date: Halyburton
v.
Provost of Jedburgh
29 June 1626
Case No.No 357.
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In an action against a Magistrate for not taking a rebel, after he was charged for that effect, the Lords found, that the summons, bearing the rebel to have been in the Magistrate's company the time of the charge, behoved to be otherwise
proved than by the messenger's execution, which was found not probative. *** This case is No 17. p. 11694. voce Prisoner.
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