[1790] Hailes 1091
Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR DAVID DALRYMPLE, LORD HAILES.
Subject_2 CAUTIONER - PERSONAL AND TRANSMISSIBLE.
Subject_3 A cautionary obligation does not fall by the cautioner's death, but continues upon his heirs.
Date: The University of Glasgow
v.
Sir William Miller
18 November 1790 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
[Fac. Coll. X. 302; Dict. 2106.]
Justice-Clerk. A man, becoming cautioner for a factor, binds himself and his heirs: he may, on paying up arrears, liberate himself, and so may his heirs. As to the practice of banks in renewing cautioners, there is good reason for it: the heir may not be so solvent as the original cautioner; and, besides, summary diligence cannot go against the heir of a cautioner.
On the 18th November 1790, “The Lords repelled the defence of the heirs of the cautioners.”
Act. A. Rolland. Alt. A. Wight. Reporter, Swinton.
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