The Book of Scotland: By William Chambers |
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... criminal cases acted for the king's interest . such state officers , exclusive of the supernumerary members , so far as it can now be ascertained , was composed the Privy Council of Scotland . Towards the latter end of the seventeenth ...
... criminal cases acted for the king's interest . such state officers , exclusive of the supernumerary members , so far as it can now be ascertained , was composed the Privy Council of Scotland . Towards the latter end of the seventeenth ...
Page 12
... criminals or others were placed . + Immediately behind the bar , and with- out the enclosed area , at that part of the floor opposite the door - way of the " outer - house , " there was placed a low pulpit , for the use of the clergymen ...
... criminals or others were placed . + Immediately behind the bar , and with- out the enclosed area , at that part of the floor opposite the door - way of the " outer - house , " there was placed a low pulpit , for the use of the clergymen ...
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... criminals . The third committee acted as a court in civil cases . It does not appear , how- ever , that these two latter committees transacted busi- ness as regularly constituted courts . They were rather courts of review , and in this ...
... criminals . The third committee acted as a court in civil cases . It does not appear , how- ever , that these two latter committees transacted busi- ness as regularly constituted courts . They were rather courts of review , and in this ...
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... criminal nature , which recognizes only cases re- ferring to Scotland . The office of Lord High Steward was very properly abolished . The offices of Lord High Constable , and Earl or Knight Marischal , conti- nue in the possession of ...
... criminal nature , which recognizes only cases re- ferring to Scotland . The office of Lord High Steward was very properly abolished . The offices of Lord High Constable , and Earl or Knight Marischal , conti- nue in the possession of ...
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... criminal power was left in the hands of the barons and other claimants , who still , as we shall notice under the head of civic authorities , pos- sess a right of nominating bailies who govern certain little districts of the country ...
... criminal power was left in the hands of the barons and other claimants , who still , as we shall notice under the head of civic authorities , pos- sess a right of nominating bailies who govern certain little districts of the country ...
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Page 503 - That the two kingdoms of England and Scotland shall upon the first day of May which shall be in the year one thousand seven hundred and seven, and for ever after, be united into one kingdom by the name of Great Britain...
Page 503 - THIS INDENTURE made the twenty sixth day of June in the thirtieth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith &c.
Page 504 - An act declaring the rights and liberties of the subject, and settling the succession of the crown...
Page 504 - An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject...
Page 511 - Britain for the time being and that the Court of Admiralty now established in Scotland be continued and that all reviews reductions or suspensions of the sentences in maritime cases competent to the jurisdiction of that court remain in the same manner after the union as now in Scotland until the Parliament of Great Britain shall make such regulations and alterations as shall be judged expedient for the whole United Kingdom...
Page 515 - Act for securing the Protestant religion and Presbyterian Church government within the kingdom of Scotland is as follows. OUR sovereign lady and the estates of Parliament considering that by the late Act of Parliament for a treaty with England for an union of both kingdoms it is provided that the commissioners for that treaty should not treat of or concerning any alteration of the worship discipline and government of the Church of this kingdom as now by law established...
Page 518 - That all laws and statutes in either kingdom, so far as they are contrary to or inconsistent with the terms of these articles or any of them, shall from and after the union cease and become void, and shall be so declared to be by the respective Parliaments of the said kingdoms.
Page 519 - Queen's most excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal and the commons in this present Parliament assembled and by authority of the same...
Page 510 - ... that the laws which concern public right, policy and civil government may be made the same throughout the whole united kingdom, but that no alteration be made in laws which concern private right except for evident utility of the subjects within Scotland.
Page 518 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the Laws of God, the true Profession of the Gospel, and the Protestant Reformed Religion established by law? And will you maintain and preserve inviolably the Settlement of the Church of England, and the Doctrine, Worship, Discipline, and Government thereof, as by law established in England?