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[1610] Mor 8887      

Subject_1 MESSENGER.

Rossyth
v.
M'Gill

Date: 21 June 1610
Case No. No 1.

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An officer, directed to charge for payment, under the pain of horning, has no power to receive the payment, and discharge the same, unless he deliver it to the party, and report his acquittance, whereby he allows it; but if an officer poind and apprise, and make penny; or, after poinding, offer to the party, and receive payment to him, that will relieve the defender of the debt, by the payment made to the officer, in that manner.

Fol. Dic. v. 1. p. 573. Haddington, MS. No 1906.

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