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[1692] Mor 16971      

Subject_1 WRIT.
Subject_2 SECT. VIII.

Privileged Writs.

Lesly of Balquhain
v.
Menzies

Date: 4 February 1692
Case No. No. 217.

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Bills of exchange were, before the acts of limitation, considered as so much privileged, as not even to be subject to the vicennial prescription of holograph writs.

*** This case is mentioned by Forbes in his Treatise on Bills. See No. 188. p. 1628.

*** The same seems to have been found 25th July, 1732, in the case of Rodgers against Cathcart and Ker. See No. 188. p. 1631. See Appendix.

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