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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.
Robert Lumsden
v.
The Tenants of Tilligreig
1627 .March .Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
Mr Robert Lumsden having obtained a decreet of spoliation of teinds before the commissary of Aberdeen, against the tenants of Tilligreig, because, the quantities being referred to their oaths, they compeared not, and so were holden as confest;—they having suspended, and offering their oaths of new, the Lords would have Mr Robert to give his juramentum credulitatis upon the quantity of the teinds spulyied, what he believed to his knowledge and information they came to.
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