Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL Subject_2 SUMMER SESSION.
The Lady Kinglassie v. James Alexander, of King Lassie
Date: 26 November 1680
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The Lady Kinglassie elder pursuing Mr James Alexander of Kinglassie; he alleged against the execution, that it was null, because it doth not design him as the Act of Parliament 1672 requires, but only bears the within designed Mr James Alexander, and in the summons he is designed spouse to Rachel Ayton, heiress of Kinglassie.
Though this was a certain enough designation, yet the Lords found the execution null, and that a man ought not to be designed by his wife, which were ordinem natural turbare.
