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[1768] Hailes 236
Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR DAVID DALRYMPLE, LORD HAILES.
Subject_2 BURGH ROYAL.
Subject_3 A Duty granted upon what sold in the Market-place, not to be eluded by selling elsewhere.
Date: Messrs Lawson, Jardine, and Company,
v.
Andrew Thompson, Tacksman of the Meal-market at Dumfries
5 August 1768 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
[Faculty Collection, IV. p. 145; Dictionary, 1965.]
Auchinleck. This duty has been immemorially exacted, and with good
reason. It is like the case of the toll at the Bridge of Glasgow, which is exigible, although there is at certain times no passage by the bridge. Pitfour. When a duty is granted on markets, the levying of it is not confined to the market-place, nor to the market days. Every part of the town is the market-place, when meal is sold in every part.
On the 5th August 1768, the Lords repelled the reasons of reduction.
Act. A. Crosbie. Alt. R. M'Queen. Reporter, Coalston.
The electronic version of the text was provided by the Scottish Council of Law Reporting