Power, - Duty, - Liability of Magistrates relative to Prisoners.
Forbes v. Magistrates of Canongate
Date: 13 June 1791 Case No. No 84.
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In an action against the Magistrates of Canongate for a debt, as having liberated the debtor from jail without a certificate of the bad state of his health, upon oath, in terms of the act of sederunt 14th June 1671, the Lords found it a sufficient defence, that they had the declaration of a surgeon and physician upon soul and conscience. See Appendix.
