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Drummond of Riccarton seeks to reduce the rights of Bonhard, and the other creditors on the estate of Hamilton of Grange, ob non solutum canonem, for many years.—Answered, They offered to purge.—Replied, This being a conventional irritancy in the body of the writ, it was not purgeable now.—Duplied, They were creditors, and justly ignorant of the clauses contained in their debtor's right.—The Lords found it purgeable; though it was alleged to have been incurred before the debtor's own death.
Fol. Dic. v. 1. p. 488. Fountainhall, v. 1. p. 409.