Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL Subject_2 SUMMER SESSION.
Date: 8 December 1687
The Duke of Gordon v. The Earl of Aberdeen
Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
The Duke of Gordon's reduction against the Earl of Aberdeen, was advised; wherein the Duke quarrelled a resignation which he had given the Earl, when Chancellor, of some lands he held of him, to be holden of the King; that so they might not be within the Duke's new regality; and that the Chancellor might consent to the passing of it. The Duke Alleged,—It was not read to him, and it was of a different tenor than what was communed on, viz. That he should acquire lands of the like value, and take them holden of him; and craved that Priest Dumbar, Mr Thomas Gordon, and other witnesses, might be examined thereon ex officio.
The Lords found it only probable scripto vel juramento, especially seeing he had accepted a back-bond from the Earl, which he now kept up, and did not produce.
