Of Bills with clauses stipulating Annualrent and Penalty.
M'Neil v. Campbell
Date: 24 January 1741 Case No. No 24.
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I find in the day-book of interlocutors, that, on report of Lord Kilkerran, the Lords sustained the objection to a bill, that it stipulated annualrent 17 days before the date.
And, of the same date, The Lords found, on report of Lord Justice Clerk, That a bill was good, though it bore a clause with penalty conform to law, because, by law, there was no penalty due.