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Aikman, Lady Pitcairly, v The Earl of Haddington. [1683] 3 Brn 456 (21 February 1683)
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Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL Subject_2 SUMMER SESSION.
Date: 21 February 1683
Aikman, Lady Pitcairly, v. The Earl of Haddington
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Aikman, Lady Pitcairly, as executrix to her husband, against the Earl of Haddington, for an account of writings and debursements for the late Chancellor Rothes, which Haddington had subscribed with this condition, If the articles were just. And she offering to instruct them by production of Pitcairlie's count-book, where they were all standing unscored:
The Lords, on Forret's report, found the Earl's subscription not obligatory, unless they otherwise prove the writings and debursements; which they allow her to do by Pitcairlie's servants at the time.
