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[1628] Mor 7492      

Subject_1 JURISDICTION.
Subject_2 DIVISION V.

Inferior-Courts.
Subject_3 SECT. II.

To what extent Inferior Judges can Fine.

Crichton, Sheriff of Nithsdale,
v.
Wilson

Date: 6 December 1628
Case No. No 208.

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In a suspension of a decreet given by the sheriff against a party being cited for blood, for payment of L. 50 as for unlaw, for his contumacy for not compearance, it was not sustained, but the unlaw was modified to L. 10, and the decreet ordained to stand for that quantity only; seeing the penalty which the inferior judges have power to inflict for contumacy, was found ought not to exceed that sum.

Act. ———. Alt. Miller. Clerk, Scot. Fol. Dic. v. 1. p. 501. Durie, p. 406.

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