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[1611] Mor 7495      

Subject_1 JURISDICTION.
Subject_2 DIVISION V.

Inferior-Courts.
Subject_3 SECT. III.

Whether inferior Courts may review their own Decrees.

William Leys
v.
John Murray

Date: 29 January 1611
Case No. No 212.

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The Commissaries cannot be judges in reduction of their own decreets, but only the Lords of Session, to whom belongs the reduction of all decreets of infesior judges. Commissaries may reduce confirmations of testaments past before themselves.

Fol. Dic. v. 1. p. 501. Haddington, MS. No 2129.

*** A judgment in conformity with the first part of this case was pronounced 26th January 1677, Cowan against Procurator Fiscal of the Commissariot of Glasgow, No 202. p. 7486.

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