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Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR GEORGE AUCHINLECK OF BALMANNO.
Date: Mackdougall
v.
Katherine Veatch
31 January 1637 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
Mackdougall pursues Katherine Veatch for a tack-duty contained in a contract passed betwixt them. It was alleged by the defender, That the contract is null, being subscribed by two notaries for her, seeing she could write herself. It was replied, Ought to be repelled, in respect of the contract subscribed by two notaries at her command, alleging to them that she could not write; seeing, by virtue of the said contract, she had bruiked the lands sinsyne, and by no other valid title, and there might have been sundry impediments at that time why she could not write herself. The Lords repelled the exception, in respect of the reply.
2d MS. Page 225.
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