Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL
Subject_2 SUMMER SESSION.
Date: Alexander Chaplain, W S.
v.
Brown, Relict of Marjoribanks
17 November 1681 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
Alexander Chaplain, Writer to the Signet, pursues a general declarator of umquhile Joseph Marjoribanks's escheat, (to which he was made donatar,) against Brown his relict, and John Marjoribanks his brother.
Alleged,—The denunciation was unwarrantable, being after a bill of suspension presented and intimated. Answered,—The stop of execution was taken off.
This, after a hearing in presence, was repelled, and declarator granted; reserving reduction of the said denunciation as accords of the law.
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