Scottish Court of Session Decisions

Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION. reported by Alexander Tait, Clerk Of Session, One Of The Reporters For The Faculty.
Subject_2 PRESCRIPTION.

John Randell
v.
Executors of Innes

Date: 13 July 1768

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Captain Innes, an officer in the Artillery, resided at Woolwich in England, for some years preceding 1759, when he came to Scotland, and resided there till 1765, when he died. John Randell, an English tailor, brought an action against Captain Innes's executors, for an account of tailor's work current to the 1760. The executors pleaded the Scots triennial prescription, and the debate turned upon the abstract point, Whether the Scots prescription applied to a debt contracted in England? “The Lords ordered additional memorials upon it, and, 13th July 1768, sustained the defence of the triennial prescription, assoilyied the defenders, and decerned.”