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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.
Date: John Home of Renton
v.
The Heritors in Berwickshire
18 December 1629 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
There being a summons raised at the instance of umquhile John Home of Renton, against a number of the heritors within the sheriffdom of Berwick, for so much out of every plough, for the crowner's fee, wherein he was infeft;—after his decease his son wakened the same summons; and, because there were sundry who had conquest lands within these bounds, after the raising of his father's summons, he wakened it against them, as well as the rest that were contained in the first summons. The Lords found that the wakening could be against none but those contained in the first summons.
Page 320.
The electronic version of the text was provided by the Scottish Council of Law Reporting
