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John Keir, Treasurer to the Trades Maiden Hospital, v the Creditors of Menzies of Lethem. [1739] Mor 738 (10 January 1739)
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Subject_1 ARRESTMENT. Subject_2 In whose hands Arrestments may be used.
John Keir, Treasurer to the Trades Maiden Hospital, v. the Creditors of Menzies of Lethem
Date: 10 January 1739 Case No. No 69.
Arrestment in the hands of the treasurer of an incorporation, is a competent mode of affecting a fund in the possession of an incorporation.
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In a competition between the several arresters and assignees, to a debt due by the Maiden Hospital to Menzies of Lethem; the Lords, after inquiry made into the practice of arrestments of corporation debts, and of intimation of assignations thereto; 'Found arrestment in the hands of, and intimation of an assignation to the treasurer of the incorporation, a proper arrestment and intimation.
Fol. Dic. v. 3. p. 42. Kilkerran, (Arrestment.) No 3. p. 36.
