Subject_1 BANKRUPT.
Date: Marshall
v.
Yeaman and Spence
20 June 1746
Case No.No. 19.
Effect of the Chancelor's certificate.
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The statute of bankruptcy having gone out against two Scots merchants, Yeaman and Spence, wherewith they complied and got the Chancellor's certificate; and being now sued upon a note of L.78 granted before the commission of bankruptcy to a Scotsman, Thorburn, in London, and now indorsed to Thomas Marshall, neither of whom compeared before the Commissioners, nor got any share of the bankrupt's effects; yet the defence on their statute of bankruptcy was sustained, and the defenders assoilzied. See Foreign. (See Dict. No. 95. p. 4568).
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