Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL. Subject_2 I sat in the Outer-House this week.
Sir William Gordon and Dame Mary Campbell v. Lord Cesnock and his Lady
Date: 27 February 1708
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Sir William Gordon, brother to Earlston, and Dame Mary Campbell, Cesnock's eldest daughter, his lady, protest for remeid of law against an interlocutor preferring my Lord Cesnock and his lady, who was Cesnock's second daughter, to the sum of 400 sterling he had subscribed for in the African company's books, and Mr William Hall, their assignee.
Colonel Gordon's lady had a special assignation to it from Sir George Campbell of Cesnock, her father, with a quality, That either he or his lady might dispose on it otherwise. He, afterwards, by a disposition, revokes the power given to his lady, and dispones all his effects in general, without specifying this African money, to the Lady Cesnock, his second daughter: and, upon some transactions betwixt the two husbands, Colonel Gordon discharges all he can ask or crave any manner of way: So the Lords found his Lady's right to the said equivalent money revoked. Against which interlocutor he appealed.
