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[1784] 1 Elchies 350
Subject_1 PRISONER.
Hay
v.
The Jailor of Edinburgh
1784 ,July 18 .
Case No.No. 2.
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The Lords found that the jailor is obliged to aliment indigent prisoners in the same way as other creditors upon the act 1696.
*** The cases referred to decided the same way are thus mentioned: 20th December 1734, (1735) Rattray against The Jailor of Edinburgh. The Lords found the Jailor bound to aliment or set at liberty in the same way as other creditors. This was again found 6th January 1736. The Lords repeated the same judgment 20th January 1736 in the case of William Stark against Jailor of Edinburgh, and 13th December 1737, John Hopkins versus Eundem.
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