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Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL Subject_2 SUMMER SESSION.
Isobel Kinnaird v. Lyon
Date: 9 January 1679
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In an exhibition ad deliberandum, Isobel Kinnaird against Lyon,—Alleged, —Offers to prove the pursuer is a bastard, at least the person by whom the contingency of blood is derived is a bastard, at least was so holden and repute, (which is sufficient in re antiqua;) and so she has no interest to crave exhibition, since she cannot be heir. This was sustained as relevant. De probanda filiations per indicia et conjecluras,—sec Mascard. de Probat, v. Filius.