[1737] 2 Elchies 97
Subject_1 BURGH ROYAL.
Date: Merchant Company of Edinburgh
v.
Roo
26 January 1737
Case No.No. 8.
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Merchants in Burgh cannot retail unfreemens goods as their own; and therefore the Dean of Guild of Edinburgh having sustained such a complaint, to infer the pains and penalties contained in the formula of the burgess oath; the Lords, upon a bill of advocation, refused to pass the bill, but remitted with instructions that the pursuer specially qualify the fact; 2do, that the proof be before answer; 3tio, that the defender be allowed procurators.
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