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[1685] 2 Brn 75      

Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR ROGER HOG OF HARCARSE.

Patrick Houstoun
v.
William M'Kie

1685. March.

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One being pursued as se gerens pro hærede by intromission with the pursuer's deceased debtor's rents, he alleged, That he was but a second brother, and so could not be heir. Answered for the pursuer, The elder brother having been eighteen years abroad, without any account of him, is reputed to be dead; and so the defender is now apparent heir. The Lords sustained the defence, and found the pursuer could not, hoc ordine, call for the defender's intromissions, but ought to adjudge the lands, or arrest the rents.

Page 11, No. 50.

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