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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: Sir Mungo Murray
v.
The Commissary of Dunkeld
2 July 1630 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
The Lords are not in use to suffer more witnesses than twenty-four to be led in any cause; yet there are many divers heads, contained in one libel, which perhaps hardly can be proven by so few a number; as, to prove the duties of sun
dry lands lying far from other, &c. the party will be heard to use twenty-four witnesses, or as many as he pleaseth, for proving every one of these different heads. As was done between Sir Mungo Murray and the Commissary of Dunkeld. Page 240.
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