DECIDED IN

THE HOUSE OF LORDS,

ON APPEAL

FROM THE COURTS OF SCOTLAND.

1832. 1833.

REPORTED BY

JAMES WILSON AND PATRICK SHAW, ESQUIRES,

ADVOCATES,

AND

C. H. MACLEAN AND W. R. COURTENAY, ESQUIRES,

BARRISTERS AT LAW.

VOLUME VI.

EDINBURGH:

THOMAS CLARK, LAW BOOKSELLER, GEORGE'S STREET;

AND

SAUNDERS AND BENNING, LONDON.

MDCCCXXXVIII.

NOTE TO VOL. VI. PART II.

As enquiries have been made relative to the order in which these Reports stand, it may be proper to give the following explanation :They were commenced by Mr. SHAW, who published, in Two Volumes, the decisions pronounced the Years 1821, 1822, 1823, and 1824. These Reports are known by the Title of SHAW's Reports of Appeal Cases. They were continued under the Name of WILSON and SHAW's Reports from 1825 by Mr. WILSON and Mr. SHAW, and it was at one time intended that their Reports should conclude with the Cases decided in 1831, and that in future the Reports should be conducted by Mr. WILSON and Mr. COURTENAY, under the title of WILSON and COURTENAY. These Gentlemen published the decisions in 1832, as a First Part of Volume First of a new series, and meant to have reported those of 1833 and 1834. But in consequence of the promotion of Mr. WILSON to the office of

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