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[1764] 5 Brn 490      

Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION. reported by Alexander Tait, Clerk Of Session, One Of The Reporters For The Faculty.
Subject_2 INTERDICTION
Subject_3 JURISDICTION.

Captain James Cunningham
v.
David Blair, Minister at Brechin

1764.

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Captain Cunningham brought an action of injury, defamation, and damages against Mr David Blair, minister at Brechin, charging, that Mr Blair, having conceived a most groundless jealousy of his wife, did, to sundry persons, at sundry times and places, falsely charge him as an adulterer. Mr Blair's defences were three:—1st, The incompetency of the Court to injuries merely verbal, prima instantia; 2dly, He stated defences in causa; 3dly, He pleaded compensatio, in regard of a publication against him by Captain Cunningham, entitled Tartuffe, &c. The Court, 1764, sustained the defence, and assoilyied, and found expenses due. The action was sustained as competent before this Court, but the defence was sustained also.

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