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Paton v Leith. [1708] Mor 16988 (7 July 1708)
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[1708] Mor 16988
Peculiarities in the Execution of Mutual Contracts and Decrees Arbitral.
Paton v. Leith
Date: 7 July 1708 Case No. No. 241.
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In a cause depending before the privy council, a committee of their number being delegated to examine witnesses, and the cause being submitted to this committee, a decree-arbitral, not signed by the plurality, but only by him who was chosen preses of the meeting, while they acted as a committee, was found null.