Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL Subject_2 SUMMER SESSION.
Date: 22 December 1683
George Alexander v. Morison of Bognie
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Morison of Bognie having, in passion, called Mr George Alexander, advocate, a cheat; he complains to the Lords of Session, and leads Mr Robert Colt, and another, who heard it, as witnesses; and on this probation the Lords ordain Bognie to crave him pardon in their presence, (to the intimation of which they called in all the advocates;) and to pay 100 merks of fine to the poor, and to lie in prison during their pleasure: but he absented himself. See the like case in Stair's Decisions, 14th July 1668, Mr David Falconer against Sir James Keith.
In England, upon such complaint, a man gets some part of the fines to himself, as we see in the pursuits lately made on the Statute called scandalum mag natum; which were just to be introduced also with us.
