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: Margaret Cuningham
v.
Peter Mackulloch and Others
6 February 1628 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
Margaret Cuningham having pursued Peter Mackulloch and others, for spulyieing from her, six oxen, and so many bolls of meal;—excepted, That they were given to the defender by her for satisfaction of some mails and duties, owing by her umquhile husband to my Lord Cassils. This exception was sustained, the defender condescending upon the particulars owing by her husband for his mails, and proving that they were owing the time of his decease, albeit it was contrary to the libel.
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