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[1785] Mor 274      

Subject_1 ADJUDICATION and APPRISING.
Subject_2 RANKING of ADJUDGERS and APPRISERS.

Thomas Grierson,
v.
Messrs Douglas, Heron, and Company, and others

Date: 22 November 1785
Case No. No 44.

Adjudications, if within year and day, not affected by certification in the process of ranking and sale.


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In the process of ranking of the creditors of Brown of Barharrow, it was, in behalf of Grierson,

Objected: That certain adjudications had been led, not only during the dependence of the action of sale, but even after decreet of certification had been pronounced and extracted; that, by this last particular, these adjudications were distinguished from those in the case of Massey against Smith, 12th July 1785, (Fac. Col. No 221. p. 347. see Litigious); and, upon that ground, that preference had been denied to several adjudging creditors on the estate of Riccartonholm, 25th January 1783, (No 42. supra.)

Answered: As it is easy for any adjudger to obtain decree of certification in a process of sale, within a much less time than a year posterior to his adjudication becoming effectual, he might, if the objection were good, exclude, at his pleasure, the benefit of the statute of 1661. In the case of Riccartonholm, the adjudication in question had not been deduced till after the year and day from the first effectual one was elapsed; so that there the statutory benefit was not affected.

The Lord Ordinary ‘repelled the objection;’ and

The Court adhered to that interlocutor.

Lord Ordinary, Braxfield. Act. A. Abercromby. Alt. C. Hay. Clerk, Home. Fol. Dic. v. 3. p. 14. Fac. Col. No 237. p. 367.

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