Scottish Court of Session Decisions

Badenoch and Turner, assignees of the creditors of Chapman, a tenant in Banffshire, raised an adjudication against him for the purpose of attaching the remainder of a 19 years' lease of his farm. They now presented a petition, setting forth that, several months ago, Chapman had absconded to America, and it was of the utmost importance to the creditors to obtain immediately a decree of adjudication, so as to enable them to enter into possession of the farm, and lay down the present year's crop; that on 20th February last the petitioners took the usual order for intimating the adjudication on the walls and in the minute-book, for 20 sederunt days, and intimation had accordingly been made, but the days would not expire before the rising of the Court; and the petitioners, therefore, prayed the Court to dispense with the farther intimation of the adjudication, and remit to the Lord Ordinary to pronounce decree therein, and allow the same to be extracted immediately.