AI-generated

Petition of James Thomson, Procurator-Fiscal of Elgin, asking the Court to assoilzie him from an action concerning nails delivered two years prior, and to grant warrant for apprehending John MacCagie for threatening a magistrate.

AI-generated

Complainers reply to defenders' answers, disputing agency claims, procedural regularity, and evidence admissibility in Elgin court proceedings.

AI-generated

Defenders deny misconduct, claiming all processes were lawful, conducted by court agents within clerical duties, including libelling summonses in absence.

AI-generated

Complainers Sellar and Thomson seek to prove allegations against Duff and Bain regarding unauthorized agency and misuse of clerks in legal processes, while defenders resist oral testimony and insist on procedural adherence to prior pleadings.

AI-generated

Defendants challenge private prosecutors’ jurisdiction and motives, claiming malversation in sheriff court duties and that complaints should have first been addressed to the local sheriff.

AI-generated

Patrick Duff et al. reply to Patrick Sellar et al.'s complaint, denying allegations and calling their conduct unwarranted.

AI-generated

Sheriff-depute of Elgin-shire enacts rules to curb procedural abuses: agent restrictions, petition hours, fee mandates, and strict reporting with forfeitures or case dismissal for non-compliance.

AI-generated

Answers by Patrick Duff, Sheriff-Clerk of Elginshire; and Robert Bain, formerly his Deputy, now Writer in Elgin, to the petition and complaint of Patrick Sellar and James Thomson, Writers in Elgin.

AI-generated

Petitioners allege Patrick Duff violated the 1783 Act of sederunt by acting as agent in courts where he held clerk roles, aided by deputy Robert Bain.

AI-generated

Depositions and correspondence regarding freight charges and port expenses for the vessel Diligence in 1805, contested between Alexander Izat and Marshall and Hutchison.