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Cathcart v Paton. [1698] Mor 14792 (22 December 1698)
URL: http://www.bailii.org/scot/cases/ScotCS/1698/Mor3414792-016.html Cite as:
[1698] Mor 14792
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A creditor having poinded corns standing in the stouks, and carried a rip of them to the market-cross, which was all he could do in that case; and the Minister for his stipend, and some preceding rests, having poinded the same corns before they were threshed, and carried away as much as would answer to the teinds; the Lords found, That the Minister had committed no spuilzie, but that he had right to retain, in so far as extended to the common debtor's proportion of a year's stipend, but not for any bygones; and that he must restore the superplus.
