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Margaret Semple v Elspeth Marshall. [1752] 2 Elchies 306 (19 February 1752)
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[1752] 2 Elchies 306
Subject_1 JURISDICTION.
Margaret Semple
v.
Elspeth Marshall
Date: 19 February 1752
Case No. No. 58.
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Riots may be tried without Jury by Sheriffs and others, even where the punishment amounts to whipping, correction-house, or banishing the shire or town, as the Court thought; and therefore remitted back to the Sheriff a riot libelled by way of hamesucken.
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