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On the verbal report of Lord Tinwald Justice-Clerk, it was found, That the apprisers on the ground, and at the cross, ought to be different persons; and therefore, where the same persons, who had apprised sheep and cows upon the ground, were carried along to be, and were the apprisers at the cross, the poinding was found void, but not so as to infer spuilzie or other penal consequences, but only to make the poinder liable for the highest value the goods could be proved to have been worth. See No 51. infra.
