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Hay v the Keeper of the Tolbooth of Edinburgh. [1734] Mor 11809 (18 July 1734)
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A poor prisoner having obtained an act of liberation upon his creditors refusing to aliment him, was notwithstanding detained by the jailor, upon pretence that his fees were not a debt that fell under the act of grace, and that he had a hypotheck upon the prisoner's person for payment of the same; the Lords found, That the jailor must aliment or liberate.
Fol. Dic. v. 2. p. 175.
*** The like found, 3th January 1736, Rattray against Keeper of the Tolbooth of Edinburgh, and 13th December 1737, Hopkins against Cleland. See Appendix.
