Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL Subject_2 YULE VACANCY.
Anent The Advocates, Oaths, &c
Date: 15 February 1677
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The Lords of Session, in regard of abuses committed by the advocates' men, ordained the advocates themselves hereafter to subscribe all the outgivings and returns of processes.
They say, the Lords have also declared, that no oath hereafter, though never so clear and simple, and free of any qualities, shall be advised but upon inrolling; whereas formerly, under pretence of a plain and distinct [oath,] the clerks would have got sundry very intricate unclear oaths advised, affirmative, proven, or negative, not proven, with close doors, without calling the parties or their procurators, the next Saturday after they had deponed.
Nota.—The Lords not only sat in the afternoons oft to advise concluded causes, but also sequestrated the Tuesday forenoons to bring them forward, and to despatch such causes.
