THe Commissioners for Administration of Iustice to the People in Scotland, Considering the great prejudice and damnage sustained by the Heirs and Executors of the de­funct Creditors, and consequently of Relicts and Mi­nors, in being necessitated to raise and prosequute tedious and long­some Actions against the Defuncts Debitors, upon Decreets obtained against the Debitors, or Bands granted by them to the Defunct, and registrat against them in his life-time; And finding it necessary to re­medy this in time coming, Have therefore after mature deliberation, Enacted and Ordained, and hereby Enact and Ordain, That in all time hereafter where the Debitors of such Defunct Creditors are li­ving, Letters of Horning shal be directed against them at the instance of the Heirs or Executors of the said Defunct, for payment of the summes whereunto they are lyable by their Obligations and De­creets against them, upon the sight of the said registrat Obligation or Decreets, and of the Retours of the said Heirs, bearing them to be ser­ved Heirs to the Defunct, or of the Defuncts confirmed Testament, bearing the said Executors to be confirmed Executors to them, and containing the said summes confirmed therein; So that the said Heirs and Executors shall have no necessity to pursue for Decreets of trans­ferring, or other Decreets thereupon, and that notwithstanding of any Laws or practice of this Nation to the contrary. And hereby Or­dains and Commands all Clerks, Keepers of the Signet, and VVri­t [...] thereto, and other persons who may be concerned herein, to take notice hereof, and observe the same accordingly. And also these pre­sents to be insert in the said Commissioners their Sederunt-Books, and to be published at the Mercat Crosse of Edinburgh, and Printed, that none may pretend ignorance.