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Subject_1 PACTUM ILLICITUM.
Date: Weavers of the Calton, &c
v.
The Weavers of Glasgow
17 December 1734
Case No.No. 2.
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Contract betwixt the Weavers of Glasgow and those of Calton and Blaekfaulds, whereby on pretence of the weavers of Glasgow making those in those two adjoining villages a sort of Corporation, with seclusive privileges, with power of electing annually one oversman and assessors, to judge of all questions of the trade, and tax themselves for the use of their poor; there was on the other part a sort of jurisdiction and superiority over them given to the weavers of Glasgow, and to the Magistrates, and an annual taxation to be paid the weavers of Glasgow: This contract was found unlawful, and reduced in toto.
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