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[1775] Mor 7544      
Subject_1 JURISDICTION.
Subject_2 DIVISION VII.

Baron Court.
Subject_3 SECT. II.

Jurisdiction in Criminalibus.

Maxwell
 v.
Macarthur

Date: 16 December 1775
Case No. No 259.

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The Lords found that the Baron bailie of Gorbals of Glasgow has power to try, in the first instance, summarily and without a jury, and to punish with imprisonment, banishment, and whipping, such offences as the keeping of a house of bad fame.

 Fol. Dic. v. 3. p. 354. Fac. Col.

*** This case is No 95. p. 7381.

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