Scottish Court of Session Decisions

Subject_1 PROOF.
Subject_2 DIVISION I.

Allegeances how relevant to be proved.
Subject_3 SECT. IX.

Naked Promise.

Katharine Harvie
v.
Crawford of Milton

Date: 19 February 1732
Case No. No 195.

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In a process of adherence before the Commissaries, the pursuer offered to prove a promise of marriage and subsequent copulation; which the Commissaries sustained, the promise relevant scripto vel juramento, and the copulationprout de jure. Against this the pursuer applied to the Lords by advocation insisting, that she should be allowed to prove the promise by witnesses. The Lords refused the desire of the bill. See Appendix.

Fol. Dic. v. 2. p. 228.