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Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JAMES DALRYMPLE OF STAIR.
Date: Bell
v.
Fleming
2 January 1672 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
This cause being decided the 20th of January last, the Lords, upon a bill given in to them, whereby the defender offered to prove, that the holograph tickets were for a cause and of a date truly anterior to the arrestment, and that the citation against the common debtor was also before, and that the Dean-of-Guild Court was accustomed to decide such matters:—they found the same relevant to eleid the presumption of collusion, by the poinding made of the goods in the party's custody, in whose hands arrestment was laid on upon debts of their own, and diligence done thereon after the arrestment.
Vol. II, Page 58.
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