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Subject_1 BURGH ROYAL.
Date: Laing, Deacon of Selkirk, and Other Burgesses,
v.
Magistrates of Selkirk
2 December 1747
Case No.No. 27.
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Magistrates of Burghs cannot be sued for mal-administration of the common good of the Burgh, at the instance of any number of Burgesses, not even of the whole Deacons of Crafts, even though some of the pursuers have born office in the Burgh; though, 19th June 1747 we sustained process; yet afterwards we found the pursuers' had no title, and dismissed it. We again sustained the pursuers title by a narrow majority, but this afterwards stopped on a petition. (See Notes.)
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