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Petitioner challenges an interlocutor granting preference for half gable cost built by pursuer on adjacent bankrupt land, arguing it’s a personal, not real, claim.

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Answers by John Osburn Brown, Writer to the Signet, Trustee on the Sequestrated Estate of Robert Smith, to the petition of William Wallace, Builder in Edinburgh, responding to the claim for preference and retention on the mutual gable.

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William Wallace seeks to overturn Lord Craig’s denial of expense preference for structures he built to fulfill Heriot’s Hospital feu obligations, claiming necessity and lack of personal contract with bankrupt Robert Smith.

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Answers by William Scott, Brewer in Leith, to the petition of the Lord Provost and Magistrates of Edinburgh, arguing that the duty on ale and beer sold to ships in Leith Roads is not subject to the Magistrates' jurisdiction.

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Petition cites parliamentary acts imposing a two-penny Scots duty on ale/beer in Edinburgh and its liberties, with magistrates empowered to enforce and collect it.

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Petitioners challenge a Justices of Peace ruling granting a brewer a drawback exemption, claiming jurisdictional error and statutory invalidity.

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Information of the Right Honourable The Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Council of the City of Edinburgh, arguing that William Scott is liable for duties on ale sent to ships in Leith roads, and that statutory exemptions do not apply.

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Information of William Scott, Brewer in Leith, arguing that the duty on ale and beer sold to ships in Leith Roads is not subject to the Magistrates' jurisdiction, as it falls under the same footing as Excise duties with finality in Justices' judgments.

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William Scott, a brewer in Leith, is charged in an information brought by the Lord Provost and Magistrates of Edinburgh.

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Pursuers challenge Justices of Peace’s jurisdiction over duty claims against brewer William Scott for ale sold outside Edinburgh’s taxable district.

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Petition — Jo. Os. Brown, W. S. against Inner-House Interlocutor

William Wallace v. John Osburn Brown — Answers, 10 Feb 1808

Petition — Will. Wallace against Lord Craig's Interlocutor [2]

Lord Provost and Magistrates of the City of Edinburgh v. William Scott — Answers, 28 May 1808

APPENDIX TO PETITION for the MAGISTRATES of Edinburgh. Excerpts from the Acts of Parliament which imposed a duty on Ale and Beer. 1st, Act of King William and Queen Mary, 13th June

Reclaiming Petition — The Right Honourable the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Council of the City of Edinburgh, and their Collector of the Duties of Two Pennies in the Pint of Ale and Beer Brewed within the City of Edinburgh,—Pursuers [2]

City of Edinburgh v. William Scott — Information, 24 Jan 1807

William Scott v. The Lord Provost and Magistrates of the City of Edinburgh — Information, 2 Feb 1807

William Scott v. The Lord Provost and Magistrates of Edinburgh — Information, 2 Feb 1807

Magistrates of Edinburgh v. William Scott — Information, 5 Jun 1806