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[1630] 1 Brn 184      

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.

The Earl of Cassils
v.
Alexander Barclay

Date: 18 December 1630

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Witnesses, ex officio, are ordinarily examined before the Lords; yet sometimes, upon considerations, they have directed a commission for examining of them, where the parties cannot conveniently come before the Lords. As in an action between the Earl of Cassils and Alexander Barclay, wherein there were divers witnesses examined ex officio;—the Lords directed a commission to the minister of Maybole to examine Alexander's wife, ex officio, upon some points.

Page 246.

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