Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL Subject_2 SUMMER SESSION.
Anent the Long Prescription
Date: 19 February 1680
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It was debated, though bonds prescribe after forty years, if not pursued for, yet what if one be out of the country near forty years, and, after the forty years, he pursue for the debt, and do not make use of the bond which is prescribed, but refer the forty years old debt to his oath; will he be obliged to pay, if he compear, and swear that he was once indeed owing that debt, but that it is past forty years since it was lent; will the grand prescription assoilyie him? I think it will.
