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[1629] 1 Brn 288      

Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR GEORGE AUCHINLECK OF BALMANNO.

Lady Ayton
v.
The Heirs of Mr Alexander Home

Date: 26 March 1629

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An ordinary action, intented for exhibition of writs, cannot supply the place of an incident taken to prove an exception. But, if the said action of exhibition be used for diligence in termino probatorio, the Lords repel the same, and will circumduce the term, except, out of favour, they grant a day to the excipient to conclude his probation.

Page 52.

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