Subject_1 ARRESTMENT.
Subject_2 Upon what Debts Arrestment may be Founded.
Date: Katharine Ross, Relict of David Dickson, Supplicant,
v.
William Renton, Factor to the Estate of Begbie
26 February 1712
Case No.No 21.
A depending process of reduction, (which does not conclude for payment of money) is not a proper ground of arrestment.
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Upon a representation made by Katharine Ross, that William Renton had arrested all her effects, upon the dependence of a process of reduction raised by him against her:——The Lords found, That the depending reduction (which concludes not the payment of money, but the removing a right out of the way) is not the proper ground of arrestment: And therefore ordained the arrestment, used upon that depending process, to be loosed without caution or consignation.
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