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[1592] Mor 6801      
Subject_1 INDEFINITE PAYMENT.

James Harvie
 v.
The Earl of Murray

 Date: 14 December 1592
Case No. No 2.

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In the action pursued by James Harvie, advocate, against the Earl of Murray, it, was found, by the Lords interlocutor, that a party who is obliged pluribus nominibus for sundry debts and sums of money, if he makes payment of a sum of silver indefinite to his creditors, he may ascribe it to the payment of any of the debts the debtor pleases, st eo casu debitoris est optio in eujus potissimum obligationis liberationem imputari velit solutionem.

 Fol. Dic. v. 1. p. 460. Haddington, MS. No 54.

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