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Hope v Tweedie. [1776] Mor 9522 (3 December 1776)
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[1776] Mor 9522
Sponsiones ludicræ. - Game Debt. - Premium for procuring a Wife. - Private Lotteries.
Hope v. Tweedie
Date: 3 December 1776 Case No. No 66.
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The Lords sustained action for a wager of a pipe of Port wine between two Gentlemen, to be paid to him who should walk first to Edinburgh from a certain place in the country; though they assoilzied on the circumstances of the case, from which a presumption arose, that the wager was not seriously laid.—See Appendix.
