Subject_1 JURISDICTION.
Date: Alexander Ross
v.
Sir Hugh Hamilton, alias Dalrymple of Bargeny
29 November 1737
Case No.No. 15.
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A promissory-note bearing to be granted by a Scotsman while in France to a French woman (while in the hands of her doers here in order
to get payment) attached by the alleged granter as forged;—the Lords, in respect that no judicial demand had been made upon it, and that the creditor did not subject it to a trial here, found themselves not competent to try the forgery, and ordered the note to be given up to the woman's agents.
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