Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL Subject_2 SUMMER SESSION.
Anent Prescription of Merchant Accounts
Date: 25 July 1677
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Quærebatur,—If the act ordaining merchant counts to prescribe within three years, quoad modum probandi, militates against strangers, who are not tied by our law, and know not such as are juris mere positivi. Yet it was alleged, that it did prescribe even to them, where the subject matter contraverted was Scots goods, for then actor sequitur et forum rei and the laws of his country.
