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[1548] Mor 7322      

Subject_1 JURISDICTION.
Subject_2 DIVISION IV.

Jurisdiction of the Court of Session.
Subject_3 SECT. I.

To what Causes this Jurisdiction extends.

Abbot of Paisley
v.
Crichton

1548. March.
Case No. No 48.

The Lords found themselves competent judges in a process of baratry against a churchman.


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The Lords, by interlocutor, decerned them competent judges to proceed against Mr William Crichton, priest of St Giles's kirk, accused before them for baratry; because, as was alleged, he impetrate the Bailie of Dunkeld in Rome without license of the Queen or Governor, contrary to the act of Parliament; notwithstanding he alleged he ought not to answer before them, by reason that he was clerk, and a kirkman, and the Lords were but temporal judges. The Abbot of Paisley was his contrary party, and the Queen's Advocate, and others, dissented to the interlocutor.

Fol. Dic. v. 1. p. 495. Sinclair, MS. p. 81.

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