Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL Subject_2 SUMMER SESSION.
Date: 5 July 1687
John Richardson and Alexander Crawfurd v. The Faculty of Advocates
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Mr John Richardson, and Mr Alexander Crawfurd, advocates, who had entered by bills, declining to pay their whole 1000 merks, the Faculty ordered their gowns to be sequestrated, and they to be debarred, and kept out. Whereupon they complained to the Lords, who so far countenanced them, as to ordain their gowns to be restored, seeing that would break their employments; and seeing they had given bond, the Lords allowed to proceed viâ ordinariâ against them by horning: and being charged, they gave in bills of suspension, which were debated and determined on the 12th of July. Their reasons were:—they ought to be exemed, 1 mo, Because several in their circumstances had been dispensed with. 2do, That it was contrary to the nature of a liberal science, prætio nummario dehonestari, and was only for mechanics; and that the Act of Sederunt in 1679, in Nairn of Greenyard's case, favoured them. Answered,—Any dispensations given, were for such as entered prior to the Act of Sederunt 1684, which abrogated that in 1679.
The President inclined there should be no difference in the sum for the manner of entry. But it was carried against him, and the letters were found orderly proceeded; so they made payment of their other moiety of 500 merks.
