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 Sands, Petitioner
17 December 1629 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
William Sands comprised a tenement in Culross, from Andrew Gibson, which comprising was allowed by the Lords, and letters ordained to be granted, at his instance, to charge the bailies of Culross to infeft him. Before he got infeftment he dies; after which his son, David Sands, being retoured general heir to his father, gave in a bill to the Lords that he might have letters to charge the bailies to infeft him upon his father's comprising, sicklike as if his father had been alive. Which the Lords granted.
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