Scottish Court of Session Decisions

Subject_1 PROOF.
Subject_2 DIVISION IV.

Private Deed, how far probative.
Subject_3 SECT. I.

If probative of its Onerous Cause against Creditors and Donatars of Escheat.

The Lord Elibank
v.
Elizabeth Adamson and Edward Callender her Husband

Date: 18 February 1712
Case No. No 460.

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In the competition betwixt the Lord Elibank and Elizabeth Adamson, and her Husband, the Lords found, that an uncle and nephew in law are not conjunct persons in the sense of the act of Parliament 1621, concerning bankrupts; because an uncle and nephew by affinity are not hindered to judge in one another's cause, act 13. Parl. 3. Ch. II.

Fol. Dic. v. 2. p. 254. Forbes, p. 586.