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[1692] 4 Brn 5      

Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL.

Sir Alexander Cokburn of Lanton
v.
Cokburn of that Ilk

Date: 22 November 1692

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Sir Alexander Cokburn of Lanton having charged Cokburn of that Ilk for L.100 Scots, as his proportion of Lanton's commissioner-fees for Berwickshire to the Parliament; Cokburn craved compensation on sundry debts he had paid for him.

Answered.—They were debitum fundi, and not to be compensated with personal debts. The Lords found it compensable, and ordained them to count and reckon.

Vol. I. page 520.

The electronic version of the text was provided by the Scottish Council of Law Reporting     

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