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[1624] 1 Brn 133      

Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION reported by SIR ROBERT SPOTISWOODE OF PENTLAND.
Subject_2 Such of the following Decision as are of a Date prior to about the year 1620, must have been taken by Spotiswoode from some of the more early Reporters. The Cases which immediately follow have no Date affixed to them by Spotiswoode.

Douglas
v.
The Laird of East-Nisbet

Date: 11 March 1624

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It being alleged that Douglas had taken John Stuart's escheat to his own behoof, in so far as they offered to prove that it was done by his own consent and procuring;—the Lords found that his qualifying himself to be a just creditor might very well take the rebel's escheat with his own knowledge and consent, and yet not to his behoof.

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