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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: Mark Ker
v.
Scot of Hartwood-Myres
12 February 1628 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
In a reduction of a retour, pursued by Mark Ker against Scot of Hartwood-Myres, for this reason, That the lands were retoured for a less duty than they should have been;—Alleged, That the process should have been in Latin, under the quarter seal, as was the custom in all reductions of retours or inordinat processes. However, the Lords sustained the summons, because the reason of reduction concluded not the inquest to have committed a wilful error.
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