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Subject_1 JURISDICTION.
Date: Procurator-Fiscal of the Admiralty-Court
v.
M'Kenzie of Corrie
27 July 1738
Case No.No. 17.
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The Judge-Admiral having tried a process of oppression against a Bailie for seizing and carrying off herrings and nets, &c. without any trial or sentence, and fined the Bailie;—upon a suspension, the first objection was, that the Judge-Admiral could not try the crime without a Jury, which the Lords repelled, since it could not affect either life, limb or fame, 21st July 1738;—2dly, That the witnesses were all testes singulares, and two witnesses did not concur as to the same act, which was also repelled; because they thought this a general crime, (though some differed,) and found the letters orderly proceeded. (See Dict. No. 227. p. 7510.)
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