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The Creditors of Robert Simpson of Thornton, Petitioners. [1750] Mor 14345 (18 January 1750)
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[1750] Mor 14345
The Creditors of Robert Simpson of Thornton, Petitioners
Date: 18 January 1750 Case No. No. 13.
Sequestration of a bankrupt estate refused, on account of the nullity of the sale.
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An application being made for a sequestration of the lands of Thornton, where of a ranking and sale was depending, it was objected to on this ground, that the sale was void, the debtor's whole lands not being brought into it. Answered, That was no objection to the sequestration.
But it being replied, That there was no other process in Court but the sale, “The Lords refused to sequestrate.”
