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Petition — Monkland Canal Company [2]

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Petition of the Monkland Canal Company, asking the Court to permit interim execution notwithstanding an appeal, to recover expenses of process and extract found due by a prior decree.

DUP.—WILLIAM WILSON, &c. TO REP.—R. TURNER & SON. T. DARLING, Agent. F. Clerk. Edinburgh, 15th January 1822.—The Lords allow Replies to be given in within ten days, and Duplies to

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Creditors and trustee defend resolutions to send bankrupt abroad, challenging petitioners' claims of misconduct and collusion.

REP.—R. TURNER & SON, TO ANS.—WILLIAM WILSON, &c. Macmillan & Grant, Agents for the Petitioners. Thomas Darling, Agent for the Respondents. F. Clerk. Edinburgh, 15th January, 1822.

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Petitioners challenge creditor meeting resolutions authorizing bankrupt’s relocation to Jamaica for estate recovery, alleging fraud and breach of statutory duties.

Robert Turner and Son v. William Wilson, Ebenezer Brown, and James Watson — Answers, 3 Jan 1822 [2]

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Creditors and trustee defend sending bankrupt to Jamaica to recover foreign assets, rejecting claims of collusion or improper motives.

APPENDIX. CORRESPONDENCE between ALEXANDER PEARSON, Writer to the Signet, and ALEXANDER DOUGLAS, Writer to the Signet. 1.—LETTER ALEXANDER DOUGLAS, W. S. to Mr. ALEXANDER PEARSON,

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Dispute over whether Alexander Douglas requested consignation of purchase price for Parkhall lands, with Pearson asserting Douglas’s intent to prevent consignation to avoid interest loss.

W. C. Learmonth v. Alexander Douglas — Answers, 3 Jun 1822

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Alexander Douglas, Common Agent in Parkhall Ranking, answers petitioners’ claim that they must retain funds for annuities under the articles of roup, asserting consignation binds them to retain funds under the sale terms.

APP. to PET. for W. C. LEARMONTH, Esq. &c. AGAINST Inner-House Interlocutor. ALEX. PEARSON, W.S. Petitioners' Agent. ALEX. DOUGLAS, W.S. Respondent's Agent. Sir R. DUNDAS, Clerk. A

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Petitioners seek to enforce a bond for purchase of multiple lots at a public roup sale of Parkhall estate, with Alexander Pearson as cautioner.

Petition — W. C. Learmonth, Esq. against an Inner-House Interlocutor

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Petitioners seek review of interlocutor refusing exoneration after consigning full bond price at common agent’s request, arguing bond terms and decree exempt them from retaining annuity funds.

ANS.—Alex. Douglas, W.S. Common Agent in Parkhall Ranking, TO PET.—W. C. Learmonth, Esq. &c. Party, Respondent's Agent. Alex. Pearson, W.S. Petitioners Agent. Sir R. Dundas, Clerk.

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Answers by Alexander Douglas, W.S. Common Agent in Parkhall Ranking, to the petition of William Colville Learmonth, Esq. &c., asserting that the petitioners are bound to retain L. 2400 to answer annuities as per the articles of roup.

Petition — William Colville Learmonth, Esq. residing at Viewforth, near Edinburgh, and of Sir Samuel Stirling of Glorat, Bart., Frederick Fotheringham, Esq. one of His Majesty's Commissioners of Excise for Scotland, and Alexander Pearson, Writer to…

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Petitioners, trustees of John M'Kenzie, seek exoneration and return of bond after paying full purchase price and related warrants for lands at Parkhall judicial sale.

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