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Subject_1 POINDING.
Date: Muirhead
v.
Provost Corrie
13 February 1736
Case No.No. 3.
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The Lords thought that letters of open doors are not necessary for opening presses or chests in order to poind. 2dly, They thought the possessors of such goods not bound to assist the messenger in poinding or opening doors, but only to suffer the messenger himself to do it. 3dly, Where a messenger is actually stopped, though the person that stopped him may have a good reason for doing it, yet in competition even with third parties arresters, the Lords preferred the poinder, as if the poinding had been complete.
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