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Jameson v Leckie. [1729] Mor 711 (00 December 1729)
URL: http://www.bailii.org/scot/cases/ScotCS/1729/Mor0200711-046.html Cite as:
[1729] Mor 711
Subject_1 ARRESTMENT. Subject_2 What Subjects Arrestable.
Jameson v. Leckie
1729.
December. Case No. No 46.
Bills deposited, blank indorsed, cannot be arrested in the hands of the depositary.
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Mathew Stewart having some bills payable to himself, signed blank indorsations, and gave them to Leckie of Arnmore, to be delivered to some of his creditors; before delivery arrestment was used in Leckie's hands, and a forthcoming insisted in.—The Lords found, That exhibition, not arrestment, was the habile diligence to affect bills thus deposited, and therefore that Leckie had warrantably given up the bills according to his commission, notwithstanding the arrestment.
