Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL Subject_2 SUMMER SESSION.
Anent a Wager
Date: 22 January 1680
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There is a wager betwixt two, that one of them shall pay 100 dollars if such a ship arrived at Leith on such a day before 11 o'clock at night. The ship comes in much sooner, and before 11 o'clock at night goes out of the harbour again. The party promiser, being pursued for the 100 dollars, alleged he was free; for the ship was not there at 11 o'clock at night. Answered,—It was there sooner, which satisfied the condition, and the tempus adjectum was in his favours.
