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Subject_1 WITNESS.
The Duke of Roxburgh
v.
Chatto
1753 ,Feb. 16 .
Case No.No. 35.
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In this trial of forgery, mentioned supra February 6, (No. 30, voce Fraud) Mr Walter Pringle, Advocate, was adduced for the pursuer, and being interrogated, Whether the prisoner had showed him the writing quarrelled, what the tenor or purport and date of it were, and what conversation he had with Mr Robert Pringle, one of the Duke's lawyers, concerning it? Objected, that he was employed as counsel for the prisoner, and therefore could not be obliged to reveal any of his client's secrets. The Lords found him obliged to depone, Whether he had seen the writing, and what he remembered of the tenor and date of it, and what conversation he had with Mr Robert Pringle, but would not ask him from whom he got the paper, nor any thing that his client said to him about it? which was agreeable to the precedent, 21st December 1675, Creditors of Wamphray against Lord Wamphray, (Dict. No. 12. p. 347.)
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