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Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN BAIRD OF NEWBYTH.
Date: William Fountain
v.
William Maxwell
1 February 1666 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
In an exhibition of writs, pursued by William Fountain against William Maxwell of Nethergate;—it being controverted, whether the having of writs were probable by writ, oath of party, or by witnesses; and especially that member of the libel, of fraudfully putting away, how the same was probable;—
The Lords thought it a most perplexed business: and found, That, before citation, the having of writs was probable by witnesses; but that fraudfully putting them away, was not probable that way.
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