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Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR GEORGE AUCHINLECK OF BALMANNO.
Date: James Brown
v.
The Sheriff of Pearth
18 July 1630 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
James Brown, in Kirktoun of Mailler, is decerned, by the Sheriff of Pearth, in a blood-unlaw of £50, for wounding of Hugh Moncreiff. He suspends, alleging, That, before he was cited (at least before he was convicted) in the sheriffcourt, he was unlawed for the said blood by his master, the Laird of Freeland, baron of the said lands of Kirktoun of Mailler. To the which it was answered for the Sheriff, That the baron had no power to sit upon this blood, being committed without the bounds of the barony, and against a person who was not tenant to the Laird of Freeland. The Lords found the letters orderly proceeded at the Sheriff his instance.
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