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Smith v Williamson. [1642] Mor 14714 (24 January 1642)
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[1642] Mor 14714
Subject_1 SOLIDUM ET PRO RATA. Subject_2 SECT. XVIII.
Magistrates who allow a Prisoner to Escape.
Smith v. Williamson
Date: 24 January 1642 Case No. No. 113.
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One of the Magistrates of a town, who himself, upon the creditor's charging, had imprisoned a rebel, being dead after the rebel's escape out of prison, the Lords sustained action against the other Magistrates surviving, conjunctly and severally, and that without any necessity of pursuing the representatives of the deceased.
