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Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR ALEXANDER GIBSON, OF DURIE.
Date: The Bishop of the Isles
v.
His Vassals
6 March 1629 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
In an improbation, a defender being summoned at his dwelling-place, which was the principal house of his lands, wherefrom he was styled; and he compearing by his procurators, and alleging no process upon that citation, seeing then he had no remaining, nor dwelt there: but by the contrary it was offered to be proven, that the time of the citation, and divers months before, and by the space of a year since that time, he dwelt and remained at the schools in Leith, being a minor, and brought up there: This allegeance was repelled, and the execution sustained, but prejudice to reduce thereon, prout de jure.
Act. Advocatus and Aiton. Alt. Nicolson and Stuart. Gibson, Clerk. Vid. 2d July 1630, E. Hume.
Page 434.
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