Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL Subject_2 SUMMER SESSION.
James Sutherland v. John Galloway
Date: 3 February 1680
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In the case betwixt James Sutherland, late Treasurer in Edinburgh, and John Galloway, the Lords shunned to determine whether or not the Town of Edinburgh might legally and warrantably imprison the tacksmen of their common good, and their cautioners, summarily, for their deficiency in payment, without registrating their tack or charging them thereon; in respect not only Edinburgh, but likewise the other royal burghs, are in constant use to imprison summarily, providing it be for their common good allenarly.
