Sponsiones ludicrĉ. - Game Debt. - Premium for procuring a Wife. - Private Lotteries.
Hope v. Tweedie
Date: 3 December 1776 Case No. No 66.
Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
The Lords sustained action for a wager of a pipe of Port wine between two Gentlemen, to be paid to him who should walk first to Edinburgh from a certain place in the country; though they assoilzied on the circumstances of the case, from which a presumption arose, that the wager was not seriously laid.—See Appendix.
