Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL Subject_2 SUMMER SESSION.
Acts of Sederunt
Date: 1 November 1677
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The Lords fell upon some acts of Sederunt,—1mo, Discharging all solicitations to be made to the Lords of Session by the parties, their advocates, &c.; see two old acts against it, one in July 1596, another in July 1657.* 2do, That where the charger or pursuer is not ready to insist for that week, he shall be heard upon his application to the Ordinary; but if he do not crave a hearing during the time that the Ordinary who called it is in the Outer-House, then it must be enrolled of new in the end, and posterior to all the causes in the book of enrolment; else defenders shall be defrauded of all the benefit and certainty designed them by the regulations, and be put week after week to attend the pursuer's malicious delay and uncertain motions. Vide supra, January 1677, No. 529, the same thing done. The third was prohibiting the clock to be kept back at 12 hours, at any's desire whatsoever.
Advocates' MS. No. 644, folio 302.
* Carfania impudentissima mulier causam protons edicto de poslidando dedit, L. 1. paragrapho 4. de Postulando. Some named Tolquhon, and his brother Thomas Forbes, as they who gave principal occasion to the making this act against solicitations.
