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[1739] Mor 16979      
Subject_1 WRIT.
Subject_2 SECT. VIII.

Privileged Writs.

Goodlet-Campbell
 v.
Lennox

Date: 18 December 1739
Case No. No. 230.

A missive letter not holograph, acknowledged to have been subscribed, found obligatory in re mercatoria.

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A missive letter of credit acknowleged to be subscribed by the party, though not holograph, was found obligatory, being in re mercatoria.

This was a letter wrote by one country gentleman to another, recommending one as a sufficient merchant for his victual; and so was in effect in re mercatoria.

 Kilkerran, No. 5. p. 606.

*** See C. Home's report of this case, No. 171. p. 16932.

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