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[1752] 2 Elchies 306      

Subject_1 JURISDICTION.

Margaret Semple
v.
Elspeth Marshall

Date: 19 February 1752
Case No. No. 58.

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Riots may be tried without Jury by Sheriffs and others, even where the punishment amounts to whipping, correction-house, or banishing the shire or town, as the Court thought; and therefore remitted back to the Sheriff a riot libelled by way of hamesucken.

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