Scottish Court of Session Decisions

Subject_1 JURISDICTION.
Subject_2 DIVISION V.

Inferior-Courts.
Subject_3 SECT. II.

To what extent Inferior Judges can Fine.

L of Lamington
v.
Baillie

Date: 17 December 1629
Case No. No 209.

Found in conformity with Baillie against Torphichen, No 204. p. 7490.

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A decreet being given by the Laird of Lamington in his baron-court, against one of his tenants, for a blood-wit, wherein he was convicted and decerned in L. 50 of unlaw; which being suspended, and the unlaw desired to be modified, alleging, that a baron could not, in his baron-court, decern so great an unlaw; the Lords found, that they could not modify that unlaw, being decerned for blood, which was tried, and wherein he was convicted, and which was not an unlaw of contumacy for absence; and found, that by consuetude, barons might decern such unlaws for blood committed.

Act. Cunningham. Alt. ——. Clerk, Gibson. Fol. Dic. v. 1. p. 501. Durie, p. 475.