1000000030

pooten fJr

" prob,!t. r,

(¡efore lhe witneCs is ex, nl'n:.! :

j , ( ,

th,ll he m.y

"r,crw,lrJs allolVeo

orillg e"oellce

of his enmilY, or olher inluoililY. Repruh,llor is como

pelen! cven . fler

Ccnlenc~,

whore prold!mon is dllly

<nlaed ; hUI iDlhal

c.Ce

, lhe pany infilbng mul!

c,.nfi~o

10 0

Sro/J ,

which he forfeils ,f he Cuecumh T llls

a<'lioo mun h. ve lhe concurreoce of lhc K,ng's Adl'uc,'le,

b~c,ule

lhe eooclulionof il impons pc'jury: :\nd for Ihi,

reafon, Ihe witncfs mul! oem,de a party

111

il.

15 .

The ioterloculory Cenlcnee or " arrnnl,

which

partiesare aUlhorifed

bring theirproof. is" lher by way

of aa, Or of incidenl d:ligence In an

.a,

lhe Lord Oro

dinary who pronounces lt, is no longer judge in Ihe pro

ceCs: bUI in an iocidenl diligence, wh,ch is commonly

llranled upon Cpecial poinls, Ihal do nOl exhaun lhe caufe,

¡he Lord ordinary conlinues judge. .

a· wilnels docs

nOI appear at theday fi xed by the warrant of cimion, a

feeond warrant is gfdnted of the nature of aeapllon, con·

uining a command tOme(fengers

apprehend .nd bring

him before the eourt. Where the pally

whuma proof

is graoted. brings none w'lhin the lerm

.110 '

ed by Ihe

warrant, an interlocutor is pr.'nouneed, eircumducing tbe

term, and p:ecludillg him from I'ringing evidenee there·

. fter. \Vhere evideeee is broughl, if il beupon ao aa ,

Ihe Lord Ordinary

lhe aas , a(ter the lerm for pro

. ing is elapCed , declares the proof coocluded, and lhere·

upon a n&te of Ihe de is prepared by the OrJinary on

coocluded eaufes, which mul! be judged by Ihe ",hole

l ores; bUI if the proof be takeo upon an ineident dili·

gence, the impon of it may be determined by the Lord

Ordinaryin the ,"uCe.

16.

Where faa sdo oot admit a direéi proof, p.efump

ticos are reeeired as evideocewhich. inm, nycafe" make

coovineiog a proof as the direa . PreCumptioos are

confequeoees deduced from raasknowo or proved, which

iofer the eertaioty, or at lean a Ilroog probability, of a·

nother fa.'l tO be proved. This kind of probatioll is

'Iherefore called artificial. becaufe it requires a reafooiog

infer the Iruth of Ihe poinl io quel!ion, from the fac1s

Ihat already

~ppear

io proof.

Prcf~mp,ions

are ei:her,

j urí/ " dejI/re ;

juríí :

homínÍJ

j ,,dicÍJ.

oThe fi rn fon obtains, where n, tute or eunom en. blilh es

Ihe tru:h

. ny poiot upoo a preCumptioo ; aod it is fo

Ilroog, that it rejeéis all proof lhat may be brought to e·

lide it infpeei::1cafes. T hus, lhe tt llimooyofawitneCs,

who forwardly offershimrelf will out being cited, is, from

preCumption

01'

his panialoty, reje!led, let hiseharaaer

be ever fo fair : and thu, alfo, a mioor, becaufe he is by

law prefumed iocapable ofeondulliog his own alF.irs, is,

upon that p-eCuOlptioo, difabled flom a/tiog wilhoul the

cooCeot of his curalors, though he Ihould be koowo tO

behave with the g,eateU prud,oee. M,ny Cueh prrCump.

lions are C.xed by Uatule.

Prd:¡lIm,b/iono j urÍJ

are thoCe, which our 131..

books or

d~eifioos

have cnablilhed, Wilhout fouodiog any

particular eonf"queoce vpon them , or U"uliog

("Ptr

pM.·

¡"mpt..

Mo!! of Ihis kind ore nol proper prefumpllons

ioferred frompofilive faas, but mfounrlcn mm lyon ,h.

Vlaot of a eoomry proof : thus, the leg.1prelumpti"ns

for fmoom, for li fe, for ionoceoee,

.,e ,n Ifl'l't Co

cm,y

oebalil'c

pr~pofitlons,

that fm·ilUd .,

de.th

, aod

guiJ¡, are oOt to be prefumed,

witho~t

cvidtoce

brou~hr

by him who makes the allegatiun. AIJ

Ihern, wbether

they be of thlS COrt, or proper preCumptions, as they are

ooly conjcéiure, formed from what commooly happeos,

Olay be elided, not ooly by diretl .efideoce, but by other

eonjeaures, a!fordlDg a nronger dcgree of probabdity to

Ihe eontrary.

Pr.rfulllptíM(J h'lIiinÍJ

¡l/dicÍJ,

are

thof. which arife dady froOl lhe eireumU,nces of pani–

cular cafes; Ihe nrengthof which isto beweighed by

th:

judge

18.

fi{li. jurÍJ

di!fm from a preCumptioo. .Thiogs

are pTefumed, which are

kd y tObe true; but a fiéiioD

or lalV a(fumes for

trUI~

IVhal is ei,her eem ioly falfe, or,

at lean, is as probably f,dfe

true. Thus, ao heir

is·

feigo,d ur eonlidered

law ., rhe lame perfon with his

ancellor. Fiéiioos of lawmul!, in their e!f,a" be al–

w' yslimited to the fpecial purpoCes of equity, for

whic~

tbey were iotlodueed; fee an exam?I., Tit. xxx. ) .

T it.

p .

Sentmee¡

nlld

tbeir Execution.

PROPERTYwould he mon uneenaio, if debaleable

pOiOISmight., after receiviog a definitive judgmem,

b'ought agaio inquenioo, at Ibe pleaCure of either of Ihe

pmies: Eve,y Hale has lhe.efore afliKed the charaéler

of tioal tOcenaio feoteoces or decrees, whieh inthe Ro–

man laware ealled

judicald:,

aod wbieh excJude all

reviewor reheariog

Oeerees of the court of Sellion, are eilher

iTl'

for~

COf/lrldí{lorio,

where both part,es have.Iiligated the

eaufe, or in abfence of the defender. Ocerees of the

Seffioo

;/1

(oro

eannot, in the general cafe, be again

b:Ollghl unJer the reviewof the court, e Iher

poiots

whlch the parties negleaed

plead before [entente

(lVhieh we call competent and omitted).

upoo points

pleaded aod found iofullieient (proponed aod repelled.)

But deerees, though

¡""

al< I<verfibleby Ihe eourt,

",here ei, her they labour uoder e(fenlial oullities ;

t .

",here they are

"lira petita,

or not conformable to their

grouods aod ..arranrs, or fouoded on ao error io calcul,

&c. ;

or ..hefe the party agaion whoO! the deeree ·is ob–

taioed has thereafler recoveredevidence Cufficiem to over–

turo it, of which he koew oot before.

3. As pmies Olighl formerly reclaim againfi the feo.·

lenees of the fellion, at any lime before extraaing tbe

dec~ee,

no judgment was fi nal tiJl extraa: but

0011',

fentenee of lhe inner·houCe, either nOt reclaimed agaiol!

wilhio fix fcderum.days afler iu date, oradhered toupoo

a reclaimlOg bdl, Ihough it cannOI reecil'e executioo till

eXlr aa, makes the judgment final as to ,he coun of SeC–

fion. Aod,

ao order of lhe houfe 01Lords, Marcll

~ ~.

1725,

no "ppe.1 is ro be receil'eo by lhemfrom feo.

teoees of Ihe Semoo .fter

C.ve

years frnmextraaiog the

fenreoee ; 1I0lefs Ihe perfooenlided to fuchappeal be mi–

oor, dOtheo wlth a hulbaod,

11?11

"'''POJ mmlÍJ,

im.

p,., r,ned, or OUI of ,he kingdoOl. eotences

prooou~.

eetl h)' the Lord OrJinary I".e Ihe f,me e(fea , if

001

rccbimed againl!, as ,f Ihey were pronouoced 'o prefence;

and.1I p"li,io"s 'g"inn the in'erloculor or ao

Ordin.ry

mun be I'refmeo "ilhin cight Cederuot da)'s arler fign–

i0ll. ruch iOlerlocutor.

4. De·