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[1766] Hailes 826      

Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR DAVID DALRYMPLE, LORD HAILES.
Subject_2 PRESUMPTION-NOVATIO DEBITI.

Thomas Buchanan and Co
v.
James Somerville

Date: 19 February 1779

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[Fac. Coll. VIII. 135; Dict. 3402.]

Braxfield. The taking an additional security did not relieve the old company: here there was no innovation of the debt.

President. “When paid,” means when paid by the new company; for the effects of the old company had been conveyed to the new.

Elliock. This is just such a discharge as would have been granted had the debt been a debt of the new company.

Covington. If the new company took upon itself the debts of the old, the interlocutor is right.

On the 19th February 1779, “The Lords assoilyied;” adhering to Lord Hailes's interlocutor.

Act. Alex. Wight. Alt. Ilay Campbell.

Diss. Braxfield.

The electronic version of the text was provided by the Scottish Council of Law Reporting     


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