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The father, in his answers to the bill, set forth a statement of violent conduct, ungovernable passion, and threatenings of personal violence towards himself, on the part of his son, which, if proved, would have amply justified his application for lawburrows.
As there was no means of taking a proof in the Bill-Chamber, and the case required instant dispatch, his Lordship suggested that perhaps the preferable way would be to remit to the justices, with instructions to allow a proof on a short diet.
The Lords were unanimously of opinion that this was the proper way of proceeding. They accordingly instructed the Lord Ordinary to remit the case to the justices, with instructions to allow a proof, with power to his Lordship, if he thought fit, to call the parties before himself for examination in the interim.
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