Subject_1 ARRESTMENT.
Subject_2 In whose hands Arrestments may be used.
Date: John Keir, Treasurer to the Trades Maiden Hospital,
v.
the Creditors of Menzies of Lethem
10 January 1739
Case No.No 69.
Arrestment in the hands of the treasurer of an incorporation, is a competent mode of affecting a fund in the possession of an incorporation.
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In a competition between the several arresters and assignees, to a debt due by the Maiden Hospital to Menzies of Lethem; the Lords, after inquiry made into the practice of arrestments of corporation debts, and of intimation of assignations thereto; 'Found arrestment in the hands of, and intimation of an assignation to the treasurer of the incorporation, a proper arrestment and intimation.
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