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[1738] 1 Elchies 351
Subject_1 PRISONER.
Gordon
v.
Birnie
1738 ,Feb. 21 .
Case No.No. 6.
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This is a new question, Whether one coming out of prison on the act 1696, commonly called the act of grace, can be imprisoned for debts afterwards contracted? which the Lords unanimously thought they could, and therefore refused the prisoner's bill; and I doubt not he may be imprisoned by any other creditor, even anterior to the taking the benefit of that act, other than those creditors at whose instance he was then imprisoned or arrested.
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