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[1778] 5 Brn 506
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 LEX MERCATORIA.
Date: Hamilton, &c
v.
Morison and Company
10 February 1778 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
How far seamen's wages are due where shipwreck happens, and many im-
portant observations on the general doctrine ; see Hamilton and other Mariners of the Rae Galley, pursuers for their wages, against Morrison and Company, merchants in Greenock, their owners, determined 10th February 1778. The interlocutor was :—
“ Adhere to the Lord Ordinary's interlocutor reclaimed against, and refuse the petition : find the petitioners liable in expense of process since the same was brought into the Court, reserving to the petitioners all action at their instance competent against the respondents, for the value of the long-boat, sails, sailcloth, &c., alleged to have been carried off by the respondents, as within mentioned ; and to the respondents all defences against the said action, as accords.”
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