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[1678] Mor 12669      

Subject_1 PROOF.
Subject_2 DIVISION V.

Proved, or not proved.
Subject_3 SECT. III.

Forgery. - Bribery.

Henderson
v.
Monteith

Date: 9 July 1678
Case No. No 568.

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There being two witnesses to a disposition, one of them acknowledged his subscription, the other, whose subscription, had only the initial letter of his christian name, denied his subscription, adding this for the reason, “That he never was in the custom of subscribing in that manner;” but his deposition being most distinctly redargued by production of many writings subscribed by him after that manner, the Lords found the writ in question probative.

Fol. Dic. v. 2. p. 266. Stair.

*** This case is No 229. p. 11552. voce Presumption.

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