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Subject_1 FRAUD.
Date: Chatto's Case
6 February 1753
Case No.No. 30.
Forgery.
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The Lords found, that they might take trial of a forgery of a writing, though it was not produced, and certification had been pronounced against it, and the defender said he burned it, though it was alleged for him that in that case the actual forgery could only be tried in the Court of Justiciary; and they granted the Duke of Roxburgh, complainer, a diligence to cite witnesses to prove it. Vide inter eosdem voce Witness. Vide 26th January 1670, Captain Barclay's Case.
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