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Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR DAVID DALRYMPLE, LORD HAILES.
Subject_2 BILL OF EXCHANGE.
Subject_3 A Bill was made payable after the decease of the Drawer: he lived thirty-seven years after it: Action refused on it.
Date: William Fullarton and Others
v.
Archibald Stewart M'arthur
29 January 1782 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
[ Fac. Coll. IX. 45; Dict. 1408.]
Bhaxfield. This is not a legacy, but a right altogether anomalous.
President. Whenever a writing in the form of a bill is employed in things foreign to commerce, it ought not to have any countenance from the law. Were it otherwise, a door would be opened for numberless forgeries.
On the 29th January 1782, “The Lords sustained the objections to the bill;” adhering to the interlocutor of Lord Gardenston.
Act. A. Wight. Alt. Ilay Campbell.
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