Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL Subject_2 SUMMER SESSION.
Date: 22 February 1684
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One being to pursue a Scotsman living at Dantzick, on a registrate bond, he gives in a bill, representing, that the judges there did not regard his registrate extract under the clerk-register's hand; and therefore craves the Lords would ordain his principal bond to be delivered up to him, upon his returning all the extracts. The clerk-register argued much against this; seeing they could not know how many extracts were given out, and boys might neglect to write on the back if it was the 2d or 3d extract.
Yet, by a famous Act of Sederunt in Latin, dated the last of July 1596, recorded 17th November 1599, there is a recommendation to foreign judicatories, that these extracts may be probative and authentic abroad, as they would have their notorial instruments or judicial Acts regarded by us. Only, I think those extracts which go abroad should not singly bear the Register's name, but also a large attest, with all his titles, and the seal of the College of Justice.
See Seton of Barns's case against his Sister, 14th March 1682.
