Scottish Court of Session Decisions

Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR GEORGE AUCHINLECK OF BALMANNO.
Subject_2 The following CASE, and those in the preceding pages, marked as taken from 2d MS. are not found in the MS. followed by Mr Morison, while printing in his Dictionary the Cases from Auchinleck referred to in the Folio Dictionary by Lord Kames.

The Laird of Pitsligo
v.
Alexander Davidson

Date: 23 July 1630

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In an action of reduction intented by the Laird of Pitsligo, against Alexander Davidson, for reduction of a retour, whereby the said Alexander was served heir of line to the Laird of Pitsligo, his mother's father; by reason the said Alexander was a bastard, in so far as his mother was first married to the Laird of Auchinhove, and, during his lifetime, married to Thomas Davidson, father to the said Alexander;—it was alleged in this action, That this matter of the bastardy was merely ecclesiastical, and so pertained to the commissary courts. The Lords repelled the allegeance.

2d MS. Page 25.