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[1739] Mor 11273      

Subject_1 PRESCRIPTION.
Subject_2 DIVISION XV.

Interruption of the Negative Prescription.
Subject_3 SECT. I.

What diligence sufficient. - Effect of partial interruption.

M'Dougal
v.
M'Dougal

Date: 30 November 1739
Case No. No 441.

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A Summons executed interrupts prescription, though it never be called, for it is the citation itself that interrupts: So the laws suppose that appoint citations for interruption to be registered. But it was here found, that a citation on a blank summons, which, till of late was in use, was no interruption.

Fol. Dic. v. 4. p. 112. Kilkeran, (Prescription.) No 4. p. 41.5.

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