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Subject_1 WRIT.
Rutherford
v.
Haig
1739 ,June 6 .
Case No.No. 7.
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The Lords found that Mr Thomas Gordon's letter does not prove its date, unless it be instructed. We agreed that the general point depends upon circumstances, and has been variously decided, and that missive letters prove their dates in matters that are usually transacted by missive letters; but this one appeared very suspicious, that so great a claim as L.500 or L.600 sterling should lie so long uncleared upon such a writing.
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