Mrs Margaret Robertson Supplicant v. Alexander Robertson of Strowan, her Brother
Date: 22 February 1712 Case No. No 8.
Batter pendente lite not pardoned by an act of indemnity.
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Upon a complaint offered by Mrs Margáret Robertson, against Strowan her brother, for violently invading her during the dependence of a process at her instance against him, for payment of her proportion of the provision stipulated by their father to the younger children in his contract of marriage; and craving that in the terms of the act 219, Parliament 14, James VI. sentence might be given in her favours against the invader, as having thereby lost the plea, the Lords found, That the act of indemnity did not acquit Strowan from the penalty of the foresaid act of Parliament, in respect the indemnity pardon only public crimes, and penalties; and was not calculated to prejudice the interest of private parties, secured by the statute in their just pursuits.
