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[1775] 5 Brn 437      

Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION. reported by ALEXANDER TAIT, CLERK OF SESSION, one of the reporters for the faculty.
Subject_2 EXPENSES.

Wilson
v.
Jackson

1775. July.

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It is a maxim of the law of England, that costs are never given to the King; it is below him to ask them. In a prosecution for usury, Wilson, procurator-fiscal of Renfrew, against Jackson, where the Lords annulled the deed, and decerned for triple value, in terms of the Act of Queen Anne; they refused costs, because, as the prosecution was at the instance of the procurator-fiscal alone, the forfeiture was for his Majesty's use.

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