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Katharine Ross, Relict of David Dickson, Supplicant, v William Renton, Factor to the Estate of Begbie. [1712] Mor 690 (26 February 1712)
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Subject_1 ARRESTMENT. Subject_2 Upon what Debts Arrestment may be Founded.
Katharine Ross, Relict of David Dickson, Supplicant, v. William Renton, Factor to the Estate of Begbie
Date: 26 February 1712 Case No. No 21.
A depending process of reduction, (which does not conclude for payment of money) is not a proper ground of arrestment.
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Upon a representation made by Katharine Ross, that William Renton had arrested all her effects, upon the dependence of a process of reduction raised by him against her:——The Lords found, That the depending reduction (which concludes not the payment of money, but the removing a right out of the way) is not the proper ground of arrestment: And therefore ordained the arrestment, used upon that depending process, to be loosed without caution or consignation.
