Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR GEORGE AUCHINLECK OF BALMANNO.
Date: Lord Balcarras
v.
The Laird of Ardross [or Cardross]
10 February 1635 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
In reductions of rights, the Lords sometimes reduce the rights from the beginning, sometimes a tempore litis contestatæ, according to their arbitrament, and as they find the party, defender, to have been in bona vel mala fide. So, in the reduction pursued by my Lord Balcarras against the Laird of Ardross, of a bond and tack of teinds made by his father to umquhile Sir William Scott, in lecto ægritudinis,—the Lords reduced the bond and tack a tempore litis contestatæ.
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