Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL Subject_2 SUMMER SESSION.
Catharine Charteris, Robert Young, Alexander Anderson, &c v. John Muire, Stabler
Date: 8 December 1681
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Upon a bill given in by Catharine Charteris, Robert Young, Alexander Anderson, and Others, against John Muire, stabler in Edinburgh; the Lords ordained the certification for not production, extracted by him in his reduction and improbation against them, to be brought back and cancelled, because it was taken out against them in absence, they being ignorant persons; they always instantly satisfying the production now, by producing in the clerk's hands the writs called for, and also paying in the sum of for the pursuer's expense in extracting the said certification.
The ground of reponing them was, That it was stolen out the beginning of November last, when their advocates were deliberating anent the taking the oath of the test, and that their production evidently excluded his active title. Vide 29th March 1682, Hog.
