Scottish Court of Session Decisions

Subject_1 PROOF.
Subject_2 DIVISION I.

Allegeances how relevant to be proved.
Subject_3 SECT. IX.

Naked Promise.

Auchinleck
v.
Gordon

Date: 26 November 1580
Case No. No 181.

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In an action betwixt George Auchinleck of B. and the Laird of A. Gordon, it was found, that a promise, for payment of a sum for one to another, could not be proved by witnesses, sed vel per scriptum vel per juramentum partis; licet jus commune et sana ratio contrarium tradere videantur; L. 15. C. De Fide Instrumentarum, &c. et de jure canonico testes et instrumenta æquiparantur; Vide Gloss. in sexto, de censibus et exactionibus.

Fol. Dic. v. 2. p. 227. Colvil, MS. p. 291.