 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - Craig, Thomas, Sir, 1538-1608 - 1823 - 388 pages
...says Forbes, " which the Lords were convinced was forged, but puzzled for want of clear proof, the Lord Binning, taking- up the writ in his hand, and...being posterior to the date of the writ quarrelled *." To ALEXANDER COIVIL, commendator of Culross, who was promoted to the bench upon the 26th of October,... | |
 | Mark Napier - Church and state - 1838 - 576 pages
...some years afterwards Earl of Haddington. Upon one occasion, when presiding in the Court of Session " in an improbation of a writ, which the Lords were...him to beware of the man with the partridge eye." — Preface to Forbes 's Collection of Decisions. Among Sir mind to please us both. Where when I came... | |
 | William Chambers - 1852 - 410 pages
...Court of Session,' which the lords were convinced was forged, but puzzled for want of clear proof, the Lord Binning, taking up the writ in his hand, and...being posterior to the date of the writ quarrelled.' On another occasion a Highland witness had come to give evidence for his chief. The feudal ideas of... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd, John Nyren - 1852 - 626 pages
...Court of Session, ' which the lords were convinced was forged, but puzzled for want of clear proof, the Lord Binning, taking up the writ in his hand, and...being posterior to the date of the writ quarrelled.' On another occasion a Highland witness had come to give evidence for his chief. The feudal ideas of... | |
 | William Chambers - 1853 - 384 pages
...Court of Session, 'which the Lords were convinced was forged, but puzzled for want of clear proof, the Lord Binning, taking up the writ in his hand, and...being posterior to the date of the writ quarrelled.' On another occasion a Highland witness had come to give evidence for his chief. The feudal ideas of... | |
 | Law - 1860 - 768 pages
...taking up the writ in his hand, and holding it betwixt him and the light, discovered the forgery of the stamp of the paper ; the first paper of such a...being posterior to the date of the writ quarrelled." In 1626 Hamilton resigned his position as President, and was appointed to the office of Lord Privy... | |
 | William Anderson - Heraldry - 1862 - 806 pages
...chatters are preserved in the Advocates' Library. Of his shrewdness as a judge, it is related by Forbes, that " in an improbation of a writ, which the lords...being posterior to the date of the writ quarrelled," that is, challenged. On another occasion a Highland witness, in a cause in which he had been cited... | |
 | William Anderson - Heraldry - 1867 - 790 pages
...taking up the writ in his hand, and holding it hetwixt him and the light, diseovered the forgery hy the stamp of the paper, the first paper of such a stamp heing posterior to the date of the writ quarrelled," that is, challenged. On another occasion a Highland... | |
 | William Anderson - Scotland - 1877 - 810 pages
...Advocates' Library. Of liis shrcwdncss as a judge, it is related by Forbes, tliat " in an iiuprobation of a writ, which the lords were convinced was forged,...being posterior to the date of the writ quarrelled," that is. challenged. On another occasion a Highland witness, in a cause in which he had been cited... | |
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As a judge he was chiefly remarkable for his shrewdness. ' In an action for the improbation of a writ,' says Forbes in his Journal of the Court of Session,' which the lords were convinced was forged, but puzzled for want of clear proof, the Lord Binning,... 