[1741] Mor 11143
Subject_1 PRESCRIPTION.
Subject_2 DIVISION XI. Limitation of Penal Statutes.
Date: Hamilton
v.
Boyd and others
28 July 1741
Case No.No 340.
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The Lords found the time allowed by act 1703, for trying the crime of importing Irish victual, was not limited by that statute to six months; and that that limitation respected only the superadded penalty of transportation of the offenders.
*** This case is No 70. p. 7335. voce Jurisdiction.
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