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Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL Subject_2 SUMMER SESSION.
Date: 1 March 1682
John Trotter v. Alexander Young
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John Trotter pursuing Alexander Young, merchant in Edinburgh, as cautioner for a factor in Campvere; he founded on an exoneration he had got of his cautionry from the royal burrows, by their act.
The Lords found he was not liable for any goods sent to that factor after the date of that liberation; though they were shipped three days before it, and the said discharge or exoneration of the cautionry was not intimated to the merchants.