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Pursuer Angus Sinclair sues justices of peace, excise officers, and constable for oppression, spuilzie, and damages arising from unlawful fines, repeated prosecutions, and violent entry into his home with seizure of property.

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Information of defenders, arguing that Angus Sinclair, after being fined for selling foreign spirits, was lawfully prosecuted and fined again under excise statutes, and that the seizure and sale of his goods followed legal procedure.

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Information of James Gordon of Cowbairdy, Defender, arguing that the lands of Inch were never subject to the tailzie of Balquhain and that his title is secured by positive prescription.

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Information of Peter Leslie-Grant of Balquhaine, arguing that the defenders' title to the Lands of Insh is invalid due to breaches of prior entailments and restrictions.

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Respondent defends adjudication of debts from corroboration bonds, claiming it secures her share of principal and rents due before Margaret Henderson’s death.

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Petitioner argues the adjudication, based on one bond and its corroboration, cannot secure unadjudged portions of a second corroboration bond.

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Memorial of Adam Miller in Raws, Thomas Miller in Little-Blackwood, and James Roxburgh in Highmilltoun, arguing that justices of peace have jurisdiction in small debts and that this jurisdiction was prorogated by the parties' conduct.

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Memorial of Robert Boyd, suspender, arguing that the justices of peace lacked proper jurisdiction to adjudicate his case against the chargers, and that their proceedings were void and null.

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Witnesses testify to the security of Alexander Arbuthnot's timber-yard and the forced entry during a poinding by Charles Thomson and others.

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Respondents defend poinding of timber from a timber-yard accessed via a loose gate supported by unsecured trees, arguing entry was lawful without letters of open doors.