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[1638] 1 Brn 103
Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR ALEXANDER GIBSON, OF DURIE.
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21 December 1638 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
In a pursuit for payment of the sum of 60 pounds contained in this defender's bond, which bore to be all written and subscribed by the defender's own hand; and the defender compearing and alleging the bond to be null, because it wanted witnesses: And the pursuer opponing the bond, bearing the bond to be the defender's own hand-write, as said is;—the Lords repelled the allegeance, in respect the bond bore to be the defender's own writing, all written by himself; which the Lords sustained, without necessity of witnesses, seeing the defender denied not the same to be his hand-write; in which case, if he had denied, the pursuer behoved to approve the same.
Act. ——. Alt. Nicolson, younger. Gibson, Clerk. Page 869.
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