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When the witnesses are not designed, or perhaps not mentioned at all, which of course lays the writ open to the objection of not being subscribed by the party before witnesses, the use was to allow the pursuer to condescend upon the witnesses; which was found with respect to a writ before act 1681, though the witnesses were not so much as named in the body of the writ. See No. 96.
