Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL Subject_2 SUMMER SESSION.
Date: 5 March 1684
Aitkin, Bishop of Galloway, v. Dumbar of Grange
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At the Commission for Plantation of Kirks, Aitkin, late bishop of Murray, now of Galloway, reducing a valuation of some teinds belonging to Dumbar of Grange: and it being alleged that the said decreet of valuation was null, because nothing had followed upon it by the space of forty years, and it was prescribed, because it had never been during all that time extracted:
It was answered,—That a minute of a decreet was as well a decreet as if it were extracted, and the signatures were warrant enough for it. And the Clerk-Register declared he would require no more but to find minutes in the Register; which was warrant sufficient for him to extend them.
The Lords found Grange ought to have the extract of the said decreet, reserving to the Bishop all his other reasons of reduction as accords of the law.
