Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL Subject_2 SUMMER SESSION.
Date: 23 November 1683
Agnes Campbell and Patrick Telfer v. John Reid
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The case of Agnes Campbell and Patrick Telfer, her husband, against John Reid, printer, being reported by Blair; the Lords advocated the cause to themselves from the Bailies of Edinburgh, where he was pursued for having stolen and abstracted, out of her printing-houses, many types and sets of letters; on this ground, That they had summarily searched his house, and, finding some, without cognoscing if they were his own or not, they imprisoned him; and the libel did not bear, “as justices of peace, or sheriffs.”
