[1677] Mor 3580
Subject_1 DISCUSSION.
Subject_2 DIVISION II. Discussion of Principal Debtors and Cautioners.
Subject_3 SECT. I. Cautioners for Factors, Collectors, Executors, Suspenders.
Date: Sandilands
v.
Divvy
13 November 1677
Case No.No 34.
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The Magistrates of Aberdeen pursued the said Divvy as heir to a cautioner for a collector of a stent, for count, reckoning, and payment.—Alleged, The principal was not called.——The Lords found the allegeance relevant, since cautioners for others' acts of administration, as tutors and curators, had beneficium ordinis et discussionis, though the principal was known to be bankrupt.
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