Scottish Court of Session Decisions

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: 25 March 1628

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Alleged, No process upon the summons, because the pursuer never libelled what particular quantity of corns grew upon the particular lands, so that it could not be known what the multures came to, (for the libel bore thus, And true it is, that he, and he abstracted their whole corns growing on their lands of, &c. extended to so many pecks, &c. of multure.) The Lords sustained the libel, in respect the particular quantities were referred to the defenders' oaths.

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