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Lawson v Maxwell. [1784] Mor 11854 (12 February 1784)
URL: http://www.bailii.org/scot/cases/ScotCS/1784/Mor2811854-022.html Cite as:
[1784] Mor 11854
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A person afflicted with a paralytic disorder was brought from Scotland to London, and put under the care of Maxwell, a surgeon, who attended him for ten months. He became insane, returned to Scotland, where he was attended by another surgeon, and died six months after. Maxwell claimed preference for his account of medicines and attendance during the ten months, as being a privileged debt. Urged, This privilege extends only to medicines furnished on deathbed, which term the law limits to 60 days preceding death. Besides, the debt was contracted in England, where there is no such legal privilege. The Lords rejected the claim of preference, chiefly, as it appears, on the last ground.
