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Court of Session.

Friday, June 9. 1882.

(Before Lords Young, Craighill, and Adam.)

19 SLR 672

Lennox

v.

Ferguson.

Subject_1Justiciary Cases
Subject_2Grocer's Certificate
Subject_325 and 26 Vict. c. 35, No. 3 of Certificates in Schedule A. —“Permitting Exciseable Liquor to be Drunk.”
Facts:

Under the above enactment certificates are granted to grocers trading in exciseable liquors “upon condition that they do not traffick in or give any exciseable liquors to be drunk or consumed on the premises.”

Where a grocer was convicted of a breach of certificate “in so far as he had permitted one gill of whiskey to be drunk on his premises,” the Court quashed the conviction.

Counsel:

Counsel for Appellant— Jameson. Agents— Boyd, Macdonald, & Jameson, S.S.C.

Counsel for Respondent— Keir. Agent— Party.

 1882

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