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Alexander v Thomas Coull. [1666] 2 Brn 425 (15 February 1666)
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Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER, LORD FOUNTAINHALL.
Alexander v. Thomas Coull
Date: 15 February 1666
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In this case of Alexander and Thomas Coull, found, that where one is in possession of lands, though by a right thereafter reduced, yet that the possessor is not liable for the mails and duties but from the decreet of reduction, and not from the time of the citation: though the decreet bear the right to have been from the beginning, and in all time coming null; which is only stilus curiæ.
