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Subject_1 MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT.
Date: Case of Sutherlandshire
28 July 1741
Case No.No. 11.
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The defenders here waved the dilatory defence, that the House of Commons had not yet judged of the election, and the question turned on the meetings having adjourned, whether that was lawful? and it seemed to be the opinion of the Court that it was not; but as that could not affect the clerk or Sheriff, a new allegation was made of a previous concert to waste the time in order to adjourn, and that they were in the concert, whereof a proof was allowed. Vide inter eosdem, No. 7.
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