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[1748] 1 Elchies 511      

Subject_1 WITNESS.

Matthew Strang
v.
James Strang

1748, July 20.
Case No. No. 26.

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The Lords found that a nephew-in-law (a niece's husband) might be adduced as a witness for his uncle-in-law in a proving the tenor of a tailzie, though what was to be proved by him was nuda emisso verborum. But in the same case found that the mother-in-law or a nephew who was also a substitute, could not be witnesses.

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