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[1783] Hailes 932
Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR DAVID DALRYMPLE, LORD HAILES.
Subject_2 BURGH ROYAL - EXCLUSIVE PRIVILEGE.
Subject_3 Exclusive privileges of the Incorporated Crafts not confined to manufacturing alone.
Date: William Young, Deacon of the Bakers in Edinburgh,
v.
William Dowie
4 December 1783 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
[Fac. Coll. IX. 209; Dict. 1976.]
Hailes. If the argument for the defender be good, all the rights of the in-corporation
of bakers will be annihilated. All that can remain with them is the privilege of having ovens within the liberties of the city; a privilege neither useful nor profitable. As to the privilege granted by the Dean of Guild, he cannot grant a privilege inconsistent with the rights of a company over which he has no power; and indeed he does not seem to have meant to grant it. On the 4th December 1783, “The Lords decerned against the defender;” adhering to the interlocutor of Lord Braxfield.
Act. R. Sinclair. Alt. W. C. Little.
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