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[1678] Mor 9505      
Subject_1 PACTUM ILLICITUM.
Subject_2 SECT. XI.

Sponsiones ludicrĉ. - Game Debt. - Premium for procuring a Wife. - Private Lotteries.

Campbell
 v.
Barns and Stewart

Date: 6 June 1678
Case No. No 53.

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Sir William Campbell pursues John Barns and Stewart of Blackhall, &c. to pay him 10,000 merks, on this ground, because they had promised him the said sum, if he should effectuate marriage betwixt the defender and such women; and Sir William subsumed he had done it. This is founded on the title D. De Proxenetis, where the law says, Proxenetica jure licito petuntur. But I think the pursuer must qualify relevantly, that it was by his mediation and procurement the marriage followed; for it is not sufficient to say only, quod matrimonium est secutum. This process moved laughter.

 Fol. Dic. v. 4. p. 27. Fountainhall, v. 1. p. 1.

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