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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.
Date: Kirkonnel Gordon
v.
The Laird of Barnbarrow
2 February 1628 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
In a general declarator of the Laird of Barnbarrow's liferent-escheat of some lands holding of the Bishop of Galloway, pursued by Kirkonnel Gordon, the warrant of the summons bore, to summon the defender upon sixty days. He having apprehended him personally, summoned him as personally apprehended, and not upon sixty days; whereupon the executions were excepted, as contrary to the warrant. But the Lords sustained it.
The like was found betwixt one Glen and the Lord Harris, 12th July 1623.
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The electronic version of the text was provided by the Scottish Council of Law Reporting