Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER, LORD FOUNTAINHALL.
Anent Payments to Bankrupts
Date: 18 November 1671
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Quæritur, If a man may lawfully pay a sum owing by him to a bankrupt, after he knows the man to be bankrupt. If he have a decreet of bonorum, and so has disponed all his goods to his creditors; or if any creditor has arrested it, then it is out of all doubt he cannot safely pay it to the debtor; but the question is, where there is nothing of that. In which case I think he may.
