Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL.
Duke of Hamilton v. Hamilton of Wishaw
Date: 3 January 1693
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In the cause between the Duke of Hamilton, and William Hamilton of Wishaw; the Lords considered, though the years of the taxation expired in 1671, yet there were several arrears to be ingathered, which were not brought in for some time thereafter; which made it necessary to keep still the taxation chamber; and found the Duke liable for the mail of it from Whitsunday 1672, to Whitsunday 1676, and that Wishaw was not bound to relieve him thereof. Some of the Lords inclined to take a probation, before answer, of the way and manner of the Duke's and Wishaw's possession of that chamber. Others were for finding the Duke liable for the chamber-rent so long as Wishaw was paying him in the rests, the last partial payments being in March 1674. But the plurality assoilyied Wishaw.
