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[1771] Hailes 402
Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR DAVID DALRYMPLE, LORD HAILES.
Subject_2 MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT.
Date: Alexander Copland, of Colliestown,
v.
John Bushby
14 February 1771 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
[Faculty Collection, V. 221, No. 76, Note; Dictionary, 8686, (2d,) Note.]
Hailes. This is the most critical of all objections. When there is a page second marked, a page first is virtually marked; for primus est quem nemo præcedit.
President. This is a good critical answer to a critical objection.
Coalston. I think this is a better answer,—that the Act of Sederunt 1756 is erroneous: That act ought to be amended.
On the 14th February 1771, “the Lords repelled the objection, and ordered Colliestown to be added to the roll.”
N.B. Colliestown craved to be restored to his former place on the roll; but this the Lords would not grant, as he claimed on new titles.
The electronic version of the text was provided by the Scottish Council of Law Reporting
