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[1630] 1 Brn 180      

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.

Richard Maxwell
v.
William Fairly, Patrick Forrester, and Others

Date: 11 June 1630

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In an exhibition of an assignation pursued by Richard Maxwell against William Fairly, Mr Patrick Forrester, and others;—the Lords sustained the libel, bearing only that the said assignation (which was made by Euphame King to her son James Fairly,) pertained to him the time of his decease, without adding of these words,—“That it was in his possession as his own evident.” Which words, being added upon the margin of the summons, the Lords found he might pass from, and hold them pro deletis.

Page 122.

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