Audi Alteram Partem. Dr Jerrit, alias Gerard; Ogilvie, Downie, alias Dauney; Muir, Fordyce, McLeod and Jack, and Messrs. Shand, Sherriffs, and Copland, advocates in Aberdeen, and others, Versus Leslie. Addressed to the Gentlemen of Aberdeenshire; in Michaelmas Head Court, 4th October, 1808… On the motion of Mr. Ferguson, M.P. Preses, ordered to lie on the table.

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A scarce pamphlet arguing the case of Hugh Leslie of Powis (1758-1812), a justice of the peace, against a number of landowners who had brought criminal proceedings against him for, in his description, having improved at his own expense a public road that the others claimed to be in their private ownership - the actual charges being trespass, damage of a fence, and theft of ploughed black mould from the roadside. Leslie felt the principles involved important enough to publicise the matter widely - the final page indicates that the pamphlet is 'to be had of all the Bibliopolists in the United Kingdom', priced sixpence, and he also published in the same year a work of over 300 pages titled 'Hot Pressed Doctors Outwitted' covering the affair in exhaustive and obsessive detail. Library Hub locates copies in Aberdeen and the NLS only.