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[1778] 5 Brn 596
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 SEQUESTRATION.
Date: William Hunter of Clerkington
5 March 1778 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
William Hunter of Clerkington, merchant in Edinburgh, having become bankrupt, his effects were sequestrated on the late statute. But the creditors, suspecting that he had acted fraudulently, applied to have him examined in presence: he attended one diet, but the next he absconded and went to Holland. Mr Williamson, an heritable creditor, thereupon raised maills and duties, and an adjudication, which were executed; and then he applied for a sequestration. The Lords, in respect of the unusual circumstances of the case, got over the Act of Sederunt 1764, limiting such applications to be made before the 20th of February, and also that the actions were not in Court. And they sequestrated the estate.
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