What if the payment or satisfaction be of that nature not to be proveable by witnesses? Qualified declaration. A party's subscription being referred to his oath, whether he can adject the quality that his obligation is conditional, when the deed bears it to be pure ? Where the terms of agreement are referred to oath, whether the quality of the endurance of the agreement, being for a limited time, is intrinsic or extrinsic?
James Meikle v. John Tennent
Date: 26 July 1737 Case No. No 33.
Quality in a declaration, whether intrinsic or extrinisic?
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The pursuer, as having right from Richard Meikle's Executor, brought a process against the defender for payment of 300 merks, which he had borrowed from Richard; and, as no written document had been given for the money, the pursuer insisted, That Tennent should confess or deny whether or not he had borrowed that sum from Richard Meikle.
The defender answered; He denied he ever borrowed or received that money from the deceased Richard Meikle, but on the express condition of repaying the same, only in case he should ask it in his own lifetime, and not otherwise, which was the reason why he required neither bill nor bond for the same.
The Lords found the quality in the declaration intrinsic.
