Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL Subject_2 SUMMER SESSION.
Date: 6 February 1686
Patrick Lyon v. John Strachan
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John Strachan, writer to the Signet, having reflected on my Lord Forret, as if he had not done him justice in a cause depending before him, against one Pearson; as also, in bills and informations to the Lords, having reflected on Mr Patrick Lyon, advocate; there is a complaint of defamation given in against him, for saying that Mr Patrick attempted to assassinate him; and nothing being so dear to an advocate as his reputation, next to his conscience, he craved he might either prove it, or else be punished for the slander.
The Lords finding the injury proven scripto, and that he declared there were no witnesses present when Mr Patrick threatened him, they sent him to prison, to lie there till they should consider what further punishment to inflict on him. And, if he had not submitted and craved pardon, they were resolved to deprive him: however, he was liberated on a sharp rebuke.
