One found liable in a spuilzie of teinds, because the corns were threshed in his barn, and he disposed of them.
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In a spuilzie of teinds by the Earl of Roxburgh against the Laird of Langtoun and others, it being proven that the corns spuilzied were after the spuilziation casten in the L. Langtoun's barns, and were threshen there, and thereafter disponed off by him.——The Lords found this receipt, and using of the corns, to be a ratihabition; and consequently found the spuilzie proven against him, albeit he was not the actual spuilzier, but that others were proven to have actually committed the act of spuilziation.
Act. Nicolson.Alt. ——.Clerk, Hay.
Fol. Dic. v. 1. p. 28. Durie, p. 334.