[1683] Mor 12625
Subject_1 PROOF.
Subject_2 DIVISION IV. Private Deed, how far probative.
Subject_3 SECT. V. Accounts, Account-books how far Probative.
John Currier of Whytmure
v.
Patrick Haliburton
1683 .March .
Case No.No 518.
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A person pursuing for a debt assigned to him by a merchant, it was alleged by the defender, That the debt stood discharged in the cedent's count-books.
The Lords finding that the book was an entire and fair merchant book, wherein the precise sum was marked received, of a date anterior to the intimation of the assignation, “they sustained it equivalent to a discharge.”
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