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Alexander Lessils v James Rankin. [1680] 3 Brn 337 (13 February 1680)
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Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL Subject_2 SUMMER SESSION.
Alexander Lessils v. James Rankin
Date: 13 February 1680
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Betwixt Alexander Lessils, master, and James Rankin, apprentice; the Lords found, that the Dean of Guild of Edinburgh, upon a reference and submission made to him, could not appoint the indentures to be torn; and that it was not a sufficient ground for a master to thrust his apprentice out of his service, that he, after many admonitions, still lay long in his bed, and refused to carry his master's bible to the church, or was once drunk; but only allowed him moderately to chastise him for these or the like faults: but found it a relevant cause to put him from his service, that he offered to prove the boy was hypochondriac, and sometimes furious, and thereby incapable and unserviceable. See 21st February 1671.
