Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL.
David Dewar v. David French
Date: 22 February 1696
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[See the prior parts of the Reports of this Case, Dictionary, page 241.
Mr David Dewar, advocate, having complained on David French, agent, that he had uttered irreverent and unbecoming expressions of the Lords; and probation being led thereon, and the same being proven by witnesses, (against whom David French objected as prejudicate, having pleas depending between them, yet were sustained, being actio popularis, and the Lords' interest, not that of private parties,) they sent him to prison, and fined him in the sum of 1000 merks, but restricted it afterwards to 500 merks.— Vid. l. 7. D. ad Leg. Jul. Majest. et L. Unic. C. Si quis imp. maledic.
