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Mortimer v Scrimzeour. [1622] Mor 15001 (9 February 1622)
URL: http://www.bailii.org/scot/cases/ScotCS/1622/Mor3415001-001.html Cite as:
[1622] Mor 15001
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In an action pursued by William Mortimer, burgess of Edinburgh, who was donatar to the escheat goods of one James Watson, and whereupon he had obtained decreet of general declarator against one Scrimzeour, for making them forthcoming to the donatar; the Lords found the poinding executed at Scrimzeour a instance, by virtue whereof he would have purged his intromission with the said rebel's goods libelled, to be null, because the same was executed upon a Sunday, which the Lords found not to be a competent day for such acts, and therefore repelled the allegeance founded upon the said poinding.
