Scottish notes and queries Volume 1 - Tapa blanda

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ...of Orange their allegiance to King James and his son. Such a measure was not called for by the country generally, but its enactment by the party in power did apparently inflict or threaten a heavy blow on the very existence of Courts founded on prelatical principles, and would greatly discourage young men from qualifying themselves for the practice of consistorial law. The apprehended results, however, did not follow. The "Diocese" continued to be the territorial limit of jurisdiction, and the Aberdeen Advocates flourished as Diocesan practitioners, exercising as a Court the privilege of admitting procurators after trial as to their knowledge of municipal law, styles of writs, and form of process, and of enacting Rules for Court procedure, which they did with much minuteness. " The Bishops, as powers of the State, came to an end in 1689, and one would have thought that in a Presbyterian country their Courts would soon have followed; but their Courts existed in full vigour to the beginning of the present century, when at last their jurisdiction was transferred, partly to the Court of Session and partly to the Sheriff Courts. Even so late as 1876 the transference of jurisdiction was in form incomplete. In certain actions the Sheriff till then assumed the style and title of Commissary, and even yet he sometimes uses, for certain pieces of business, a seal decorated with the episcopal mitre."--Sheriff Dove Wilson's Practice of the Shetiff Courts of Scotland in Civil Causes, 3d ed., p. 17. Norval Clynk. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF LOCAL PERIODICAL LITERATURE. 1854. The Aberdeen University Magazine. Motto. April. Aberdeen: A. & R. Milne, Union Buildings. 1854. Price 6d. 32 pp., four numbers to July, 1854. It was contributed to by Principal Geddes an...