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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: Archibald Moncrief
v.
Ross of Balnagowan
23 July 1629 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
An action of mails and duties was sustained at a compriser's instance, because a comprising gives a man sufficient right to seek the mails, &c. although he be not infeft upon his comprising, if he hath to do with the tenants only, or with him from whom he has comprised, and not with another creditor who has done more diligence.
Page 282.
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