Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL Subject_2 SUMMER SESSION.
Date: 11 July 1688
Sir Alexander Gilmor v. Captain Straton
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Sir Alexander Gilmor of Craigmiller pursues Captain Straton, for reduction of a bond of 2000 merks, as being for money lost at cards. The Lords, upon Straton's oath, found only 31 guineas of it fell precisely under the 14th Act of Pari. 1621, and ordained him to pay it to them, for the use of the poor, except £5 sterling, which, by that law, he may retain. The rest was lost by packing; so that is also prodigo et perdituro credere, contra legem ad S. C. Macedonianum.
Vol. I. Page 510.
Craigmiller got it not, but had the pleasure to see part of it evicted from Stratoun.
