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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.
Margaret Baillie
v.
Janet Roberton
1627 .June 29 , &c.Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
A woman being summoned in the principal summons, if thereafter she marry, (because a wife cannot answer unless her husband be summoned,) the pursuer, commonly by a bill, meaning himself to the Lords, gets the summons continued against her husband, as if he had been summoned in the beginning. This was found between Margaret Baillie and Janet Roberton.
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