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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: David Baillie
v.
the Laird of Lamington
17 December 1629 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
David Baillie being convict of blood, by the Laird of Lamington, in his own court, was unlawed in £50; which decreet was suspended by David, upon this reason, That a baron had no warrant to unlaw one in so great a fine; and therefore the Lords should modify it. The Lords thought that a baron had no less power in his own courts than a sheriff; and therefore sustained the decreet.
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