[1747] Mor 7602
Subject_1 JURISDICTION.
Subject_2 DIVISION XI. Justices of Justices of Peace.
Subject_3 SECT. I. Jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace.
Date: Ramsay
v.
Adderton
17 July 1747
Case No.No 320.
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A complaint against a custom house officer, for an improper seizure of foreign spirits, being brought before the justices, who decerned for restitution of
the seizure, with a sum for expenses, the cause was advocated; and the Lords found, that the justices had no jurisdiction in this case, that it was incompetent before the Court of Session, and only cognizable in the Court of Exchequer. *** This case is No 307. p. 7590.
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