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Subject_1 BILL OF EXCHANGE.
Lady Forrester
v.
Lord Elphingston
1742 ,July 7 .
Case No.No. 27.
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In the question of the prescription of bills, having appointed memorials which were given in, which turned upon this, whether by the law of nations there is any prescription,
(short of the long prescription) but those introduced by statute in the several particular countries?—as the Court were not fully satisfied as to that point, they ordered a hearing in presence in November;—upon which the pursuer's lawyer, rather than be at farther charges, referred the debt to the defender's oath. (See No. 6. voce Qualified Oath.)
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