Scottish Court of Session Decisions

Subject_1 REDUCTION.

Earl of Marr
v.
His Vassals

Date: 21 December 1627
Case No. No 13.

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In the action of improbation pursued by the Earl of Marr against his Vassals in Marr and Garioch, he called for all writs by my Lord Erskine, or Earl of Marr nominatiom, or by Dame Isobel Douglas, or Margaret her mother, or by Thomas, brother to Margaret, or by any other of his successors, to whom he may succeed jure sanguinis. It was alleged, He could not call for writs made by Margaret, donald, or Thomas, because the Earl of Marr, himself, produced no elder right to instruct his title, but that which was made by Dame Isobel Douglas. The Lords found that he had right and interest to pursue for reduction of the writs called for in the improbation, but reserved to them that produced elder rights than Dame Isobel's all their defences to be produced in the action of improbation.

Auchinleck, MS. p. 184.