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URL: http://www.bailii.org/scot/cases/ScotCS/1878/15SLR0578.html
Cite as: [1878] SLR 15_578, [1878] ScotLR 15_578

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SCOTTISH_SLR_Court_of_Session

Page: 578

Court of Session Inner House First Division.

Northern Circuit. (Aberdeen.)

Thursday, March 28. 1878.

(Before Lord Young.)

15 SLR 578

Young

v.

Ythan Fishery Board.

Subject_1Justiciary Cases
Subject_2Fishing
Subject_3Weekly Close-time
Subject_4Where Annual Close-time for Salmon-Fishing ends on Sunday Evening.
Facts:

Held by Lord Young— affirming the Sheriff-Substitute of Aberdeenshire (Comrie Thomson)—upon a construction of “The Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Act 1862, that the annual close-time of 168 days provided to be observed by the 7th section of that Act has no reference to the days of the week, and that where it terminated at twelve o'clock on the night of Sunday, the weekly close-time as fixed by the same section of the Act applied so as to prevent any fishing till six o'clock upon Monday morning.

Counsel:

Counsel for Appellant— Shaw. Agent— H. Maclennan.

Counsel for Respondents— Jameson. Agent— F. T. Gordon.

1878


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