Kirk-Session of North Berwick v Sime

JurisdictionScotland
Judgment Date14 November 1839
Docket NumberNo. 7
Year1839
Date14 November 1839
CourtCourt of Session (Inner House - Second Division)
2D DIVISION.
No. 7
Kirk-Session of North Berwick
and
Sime

Title to Pursue—Process—Summons.

Where a summons bore to be at the instance of the kirk-session of a parish, and of the members thereof individually,—amendment of the libel consented to by the pursuers, at the suggestion of the Court, to the effect that the summons should be at the instance of the individual members of the session nominatim, for themselves and as composing the kirk-session; the kirk-session, per se, not being a corporation.

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