Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL Subject_2 SUMMER SESSION.
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1677. December 13.—In a suspension, Monteath against Jean Stitts, Alleged, No process; because the charger was out of the country, and no procuratory produced from her. Answered, 1mo, A dilator not verified; 2do, If needful, before extract, a mandate should be produced.—Repelled the dilator. Here it was a fine for a contumely and verbal injury; and it was debated, if veritas convitii excusat a calumnia, and if it was relevant to offer to prove it, since non intererat rei publiæ to be discovered. But this is argued fully supra, in July, 1673, [No. 414,] Fork against Fyffe.
