Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL Subject_2 WINTER SESSION 1976.
- v. William Weir
Date: 24 November 1676
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The Lords this day reduced two decreets of adjudication. &c. obtained by Mr William Weir, at least assigned to him against Mr Edward Ruthven, son to the Lord Forrester, and, by his mother, apparent heir to the Earl of Bramford. The reasons were, 1mo, Because the heirs of line were not first discussed. 2do, The decreet was extracted after an intimated stop untaken off. Vide supra, June, 1676. Tenants of Bathgate, No. 479.
In this action, Mr William Weir was much frighted by a rumour, as if the Lords had designed to turn him out of his employment as an advocate cum nota infamiæ, and to make him an example; because, it was alleged, he had taken an assignation to it while it was a depending plea, contrary to the act of Parliament; vide supra, No. 482, Eleiston, in June, 1676: but he affirmed to me, it was decerned before he took assignation. However, there was nothing of it; and the Lords contented themselves with the reprimand to Wauchop, the macer, for the like deed at the same time. See the story of it in my Remarks of the occurrences in Session, on the 17th of November, 1676.
