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[1629] 1 Brn 167      

Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION reported by SIR ROBERT SPOTISWOODE OF PENTLAND.
Subject_2 Such of the following Decision as are of a Date prior to about the year 1620, must have been taken by Spotiswoode from some of the more early Reporters. The Cases which immediately follow have no Date affixed to them by Spotiswoode.

John Maxwel
v.
Archbald Crichton

Date: 10 February 1629

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John Maxwel, having obtained decreet, before the Earl of Nithisdale's baronbailie of Eskdale, against Archbald Crichton, did crave the Lords' decreet, conform to the said decreet obtained in the baron court. Alleged, That the decreet in the baron court was null, because there was confusion of diets in it; the day of compearance, litiscontestation, and sentence, being all in one day. The Lords repelled the exception; for the formalities used in other judicatories are not used in baron courts, where it is proceeded more summarily, specially when the parties are compearing.

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