Scottish Court of Session Decisions

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 INDUCIÆ LEGALES.

Rennie, Petitioner

Date: 13 December 1776

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The Lords, in the case of second adjudications, are in use to dispense with the second diet in the summons, in order to bring the second adjudication within year and day of the first. But they never dispense with the first diet. A case occurred where a first adjudication had been pronounced, 13th December 1775. A second summons, upon two diets of twenty-one and six days, was executed, 22d November 1776, so that the first diet run to the 13th December 1776. This was the narrowest case that could well be ; however, as it is now established that a summons can be called on the day of compearance, in this case they granted the usual warrant for calling, enrolling, and decerning in the second adjudication, without abiding the second diet.