Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL Subject_2 SUMMER SESSION. 1685 and 1686.
The Earl of Lauderdale v. The Earl of Aberdeen
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1685. March 31.—The Earl of Aberdeen gave in a bill against Lauderdale, craving, in regard he was going North, that no witnesses might be examined at Lauderdale's instance, against him in the Vacance.
The Lords refused the bill, but stinted the probation to be betwixt the 26th of April and 10th of May, when all parties will be in town at the Parliament.
Vol. I. Page 360.
1686. March 23.—There is a letter from his Majesty to the Session, stopping the process betwixt the Earls of Lauderdale and Aberdeen, anent the Mint decreet, and the concussion and extortion of the bond, sine die, but during his Majesty's pleasure. This was complained of as pessimi exempli to property; yet they founded on the 18th Act of Parliament 1681, giving the King a cumulative power to evoke any cause; and that this was his own, and a gift flowing from himself.
