Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL.
Stewart v. Grant of Elchies
Date: 28 December 1692
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Stewart in Inverness, pursuing Grant of Elchies, brother to the Laird of Grant, for his quarters at his house, when Lieutenant-Colonel to his brother's regiment, alleged,—The treasury was owing him more; and by the act of Parliament, 1690, the three months cess and hearth-money was appointed for their payment, and he was content to give him a precept on his arrears.
The Lords repelled this, and found him liable, being an officer, and it was furnished not to his company, but to himself. And remembered, that in Fleming the Baxter's case against Major George Winram, for bread furnished to the Castle of Edinburgh, they would not find it a public debt, seeing they contracted on the faith of the private parties.
