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Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION. Collected By JAMES BURNETT, LORD MONOBODDO.
Subject_2 COMPLAINT FROM STIRLINGSHIRE.
Date: Count Leslie
v.
Leslie Grant
8 January 1760 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
In this case, the Lords determined that a man who was agent in a cause cannot be called by the other party as a witness, to declare upon oath such things as he learned in the course of that employment, without distinction whether they were told him by his client, as secrets of the cause, or not; for the Lords were of opinion that every thing he was informed of as agent, belonged to the secrets of the cause, and, therefore, he was not obliged to reveal it; and the same decision will, no doubt, apply to a lawyer or any other man employed in law business, in the way of his profession.
The electronic version of the text was provided by the Scottish Council of Law Reporting
