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[1637] 1 Brn 101
Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR ALEXANDER GIBSON, OF DURIE.
Date: Sir John Scot
v.
Archibald Drummond
16 June 1637 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
Sir John Scot pursuing Archibald Drummond of Giblistoun, for payment of the back-tack duties of the lands of Giblistoun, which were wadset to him, and set back again for payment of the said duties yearly; and, for that effect, to find caution for payment of the said duties bygone, and in time coming: And it being alleged that this summons could not be sustained, it not being executed upon 21 days' warning, and not being tabled in the common table; seeing the nature of this action, and the like, (viz. for paying of duties of lands,) ought to abide the common table, and ought to be executed upon 21 days' warning, especially where the summons contains no privilege;—the Lords repelled the allegeance, and sustained the order and summons which was executed upon the citation of six days, the same being continued, and the party of new summoned by the continuation; and found no necessity of table or citation upon 21 days' warning.
Act. Præsens. Alt. Gilmor. Scot, Clerk. Page 845.
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