Scottish Court of Session Decisions

Subject_1 BURGH ROYAL.
Subject_2 SECT. VI.

Powers, Duties, and Jurisdiction of Magistrates.

Salmon
v.
Linsay

Date: 19 July 1623
Case No. No 94.

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The privilege belonging to royal burghs of arresting strangers, till caution be found for payment of accounts contracted within the burgh, is competent to royal burghs only, not to the inhabitants of burghs of barony.

Fol. Dic. v. 1. p. 119.

*** See This case voce Burgh of Barony, No 1. p. 1823.