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[1764] 5 Brn 549
Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION. reported by ALEXANDER TAIT, CLERK OF SESSION, one of the reporters for the faculty.
Subject_2 PRISONER.
Date: 21 July 1764 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
James Purves, writer to the signet, having been apprehended on a caption by James Lindsay messenger, who carried him to a coffee-house; Purves gave him his honour, as Lindsay alleged, to return in an hour; but, in place thereof, he retired to the Sanctuary. Lindsay complained to the Court, and insisted that Purves should be examined in presence,—and, if the facts were as he alleged, that he should be delivered up to him, as having by fraud eluded legal diligence, for which the Sanctuary could afford no protection.
The Lords, after examining Mr Purves, replaced him in the jail, and ordered memorials. The point was not determined.
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