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Respondents claim petitioner is liable as principal guarantor for a £1000 note, not merely a cautioner, and that a later £699 note only liquidates the balance without discharging the original obligation.

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Pursuers claim Robert Paterson and others owe £280 plus interest and costs from a dishonored bill drawn in 1819.

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John Macnaught & Co. defends against Royal Bank of Scotland’s petition to delay payment of a protested bank draft, asserting bona fides and challenging the Bank’s claim of fraud.

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Answers by Colonel George Brodie to the petition of Thomas Clark, arguing that villagers at Fort Augustus must remain under Government control for the benefit of the garrison.

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Answers by Elisabeth Millie, only daughter and executrix of David Millie, to the petition of her brother David Millie, Esq, asserting that the prior decree of absolvitor was void for lack of merits being stated and was a decree in absence, not res judicata.

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Robert Kyle sues Hugh Kerr, farmer, for reduction of debt in Davieshill.

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Mrs. Ann Thomson, a party in the case, testifies as a witness for the pursuer after being assoilzied from the action, despite objections from defenders' counsel.

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Defenders challenge reduction of uncle’s settlement favoring widow and niece, asserting testator’s sound mind and health at execution.

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Petitioner contests an interlocutor granting Clapperton a preference claim over M'Culloch’s estate dividend, asserting it rests on invalid legal fiction and violates bankruptcy rules.

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Memorial of the Magistrates and Town-Council of the Burgh of Linlithgow, arguing that the minister has no legal claim for a manse and that the heritors have no right to relief against the Town.