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[1740] Mor 3449      
Subject_1 DELINQUENCY.
Subject_2 SECT. XII.

Malversation in Office.

Primrose Suspender

Date: 12 July 1740
Case No. No 25.

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The Justices of the Peace of Haddingtonshire, having fined an officer of Excise for having entered the house of an alehouse-keeper under cloud of night, without the presence of a constable, and searched for run brandy, in five pounds Sterling to the party, and ten shillings to the procurator-fiscal, though neither forcible entry was alleged, nor that the landlord opposed or declined the search, at making whereof he was present; and a bill of suspension of this decree being refused by the Ordinary, two reclaiming petitions were refused without answers.

 Fol. Dic. v. 3. p. 178. Kirkerran, (Delinquency) No 6. p. 157.

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