Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER, LORD FOUNTAINHALL.
Date: Anent Witnesses' Expenses
26 June 1672 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
The Lords have laid down a certain rule for witnesses' expenses in all time coming, whether they be adduced in causes civil or criminal; viz. they have modified to each footman two groats per diem; and to every horseman four groats.
See in January 1679, in George Young's case. Sneidivin, ad parag. 24 and 25, Institut. de actionibus, pag. 1426.
Carolus quintus, Imperator, appoints octo cruciferos for a witness's expense per diem.
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