Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL Subject_2 SUMMER SESSION.
Clerk of Pittencrieff v. The Town of Edinburgh
Date: 14 November 1678
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In Clerk of Pittencrieff's discharge, which he offered to the Town of Edinburgh, of their bond, and the decreet he had obtained against them; being minor, Sir G. Lockhart thought his tutors could not be forced nor obliged in law to cause him ratify at his majority, (as was demanded of them,) but only were bound to consent to his receipt of the money, if he was past fourteen, or acknowledge the receipt of it themselves, in his name, if he was within pupillarity, De plenissima securitate obtinenda, in paying to minors, see Tit. Instit. quib. alienare licet vel non, § ult.
