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The Earl of Morton v Lord Fleming. [1594] Mor 2698 (26 November 1594)
URL: http://www.bailii.org/scot/cases/ScotCS/1594/Mor0702698-003.html Cite as:
[1594] Mor 2698
A decree pronounced against a party absent rei publicæ causa was found not to be ipso jure null, but that it must abide the course of a reduction.
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Decreets given against a man subject to the proclamation, or absent reip. causa, are not so null of the law as that they may be taken away by exception, or summarily by a bill or summons upon six days, but must abide ordinary reduction, and continuation to try such things as consist in facto, as the proclamation, and the party's estate, and necessity to obey it, or his absence reip. cuusa, which consists in facto.
