Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL Subject_2 SUMMER SESSION.
Grierson v. Colquhon
Date: 28 July 1677
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Grierson and Colquhon, anent the returning of the prentice fee, or a part of it, conform to the time the prenticeship stood, or that was to run when the prentice died. See of this a little note, supra, No. 133. It seems not so precisely reasonable that it should divide equally pro rata temporis: but more should be allowed to the master the first year, than for the second or subsequent ones; because he is at the same expence upon his prentice the first year, that he is afterwards, and at much more trouble and pains in teaching him his calling, and gets far less service from him, whereof the boy is not yet capable; and so the master's benefit and acknowledgment, upon that account, should be more in the beginning of the apprenticeship than afterwards. But Mr Colquhon's bond he gave, providing how it should return and when, would regulate that case. Vide Paullum in L. 4, § 5, D. de Statuliberis: Joannem Vandum, libro 1 Variarum Quæstionum.
