Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL Subject_2 SUMMER SESSION.
Date: 20 March 1685
Sir James Cockburn v. The Creditors of Preston of Vallyfield
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Sir James Cockburn of that ilk, as a creditor to Preston of Vallyfield, gave in a bill much of the same nature, bearing, that the coal-works upon the said lands required much cost and expense to uphold them; so that one creditor is not able to undergo and manage it; and therefore craving, that they would appoint one of their number to use a formal roup of the said lands and coal, and set them in tack for such duty and such term of years as they shall see fit; that the said works may not decay, to the prejudice of the creditors.
The Lords ordained this bill to be intimated in the Outer-house, to see if the other creditors had any thing in reason to offer against it.
