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: Alexander Black
v.
The Laird of Pitmedden
5 March 1634 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
Alexander Black having comprised certain lands, charged the Laird of Pitmedden, superior therof, to infeft him. He suspended upon this reason, That he was content to undergo his debt, and come in his place, which he might do by virtue of the Act of parliament, Ja. III. Parl. 5, c. 36. Which reason the Lords sustained.
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