An advocate not obliged to divulge his client's secrets.
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The Lords, in a declarator that a bond was merely in trust, ordained Mr Patrick Home, the defender's advocate, to be examined as a witness, in so far as he knew the conveyance by information of other persons than his client; but refused to examine him on the information of his client, because an advocate is not obliged to discover his client's secrets.
