Scottish Court of Session Decisions

Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL
Subject_2 SUMMER SESSION.
Date: 29 June 1687

The Earl of Lauderdale
v.
John Watson

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In the Earl of Lauderdale's removing against John Watson, late collector of the cess in the Merse, from a roum in Swinton; the Lords, on Saline's report, repelled his other defences, but sustained this, that Sir William Sharp, who stands in the right of that estate, gave orders to David Maitland to let him sit another year; and found it probable scripto vel juramento of Sir William.

Vol. I. Page 461.