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[1775] Hailes 611
Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR DAVID DALRYMPLE, LORD HAILES.
Date: Andrew and Robert Lookups Petitioners
2 February 1775 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
The petitioners, having heard of the death of one John Lookup in Virginia, desired to have evidence of their propinquity to him. The first point to be established was, who is the John Lookup? The petitioners imagined that he was Mr John Lookup, advocate, and that his identity might be proved by comparing his handwriting with the handwriting of the Virginia John Lookup. With that view, they applied to the Court for a warrant to deliver up on receipt, and under an obligation to restore, certain writings of Mr John Lookup, advocate, which lay in a process before the Court of Session.
On the 2d February 1775, “The Lords granted the desire of the petition, on finding caution for L.5, and ordered notarial copies to be taken before the clerk delivers up the writings.”
For Petitioners, A. Ogilvy.
The electronic version of the text was provided by the Scottish Council of Law Reporting