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[1750] Mor 13923      
Subject_1 REPARATION.
Subject_2 SECT. III.

False Accusation. - Verbal and real Injury. - Scandal and Defamation. - Does veritas conviti excuse? - Whether a verbal Injury may be retorted by a real one ex intervallo?

Hamilton
 v.
Arbuthnot

Date: 19 June 1750
Case No. No 17.

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A person, having spread a calumnious report against a merchant advertising a sale, that the goods were an imposition, and rotten and mill-dewed trash, the Lords condemned him in L. 40 Sterling of damages to the party injured.

 Fol. Dic. v. 4. p. 228. Kilkerran.

*** This case is No 384, p. 7682, voce Jurisdiction.

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