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[1738] 1 Elchies 101
Subject_1 COMPENSATION - RETENTION.
Clerk
v.
Ferguson
1738 ,July 28 .
Case No.No. 3.
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The Lords adhered to their former interlocutor, finding that the debt due by John to James Murray, as it stood in Glendorch's person, (N. B. He had affected it on the act 1621, as creditor to William Murray the father.) was not compensable by the debt due by William Murray to John. The Lords were much divided, the President and several others being against the interlocutor, which seemed strange to me.
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