Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL Subject_2 SUMMER SESSION. 1682 and 1683.
M'Intosh of Aberdour v. M' Queen of Corriebrugh and Others
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1682. December 5.—M'Queen of Corriebrugh gives in a petition against M'Intosh of Aberdour, objecting against some Lochaber witnesses, led by M'Intosh against him, for proving his spuilyie of a horse, as being notour thieves, and denounced by the Sheriff of Inverness.
The Lords refused to delay the examining of the witnesses, in regard the objections were not instructed; but, in respect of the suspicion against them, they declared they would receive any instructions for proving the objections against them, that should be adduced before advising the probation of the spuilyie. Vide 8th Nov. 1683.
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1683. November 8.—The spuilyie pursued by Macintosh against Macqueen of Corriebrugh and Others, (5th Dec. 1682,) being advised; the Lords found it proven, by the depositions of the witnesses, that the defenders spuilyied from the pursuer's cedents the goods following, of the values after specified, (here omitted as unnecessary;) the prices in all extending to 800 merks. And decern the defender to make payment of the said sum, with 400 merks more for the violent profits of these goods.
