John Muir, Writer to the Signet, v. Shaw of Grimmelt, &c
Date: 14 January 1681 Case No. No 8.
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One appriser offers to prove another paid within the legal, in so far as he had taken a decreet for mails and duties against the tenants of the whole lands, and ought to count conform; seeing, by this decreet, others having real rights compearing and competing on their said rights, were excluded from intromission. The Lords found John Muir liable to count according to that decreet, seeing others were excluded, except he can instruct he did diligence against the tenants, and could not recover payment.
Fol. Dic. v. 1. p. 237. Fountainhall, MS.
*** The same case is reported by Stair, No 13. p. 301.
