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Mary Drummond, pursuing her father Doctor Alexander, for an aliment, on the account of his severity in beating her; and she having cited the Doctor's son to witness against his father, it being in crimine privato et domestico, which could not be otherwise proved; yet the Lords declined to receive him, because parents and children, and such near relations, are not so much rejected à testimonio, as excused from bearing witnesses ob reverentiam personarum et metum perjurii following thereon, as appears from L. 3. § 5. et L. 9. D. De testibus.
