The Heritable Jurisdictions (Scotland) Act 1746 (20 Geo. 2. c. 43) was an Act of Parliament passed in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745 abolishing...
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most severe portion of this act. The Act of Proscription was followed by the Heritable Jurisdictions (Scotland) Act 1746 which removed the authority the...
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Sheriff principal (redirect from Sheriff (Scotland))
Kingdom following the passage of the Heritable Jurisdictions (Scotland) Act 1746. Under the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1971 (as amended), each sheriff principal...
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These feudal jurisdictions, called heritable jurisdictions, were abolished in 1747 by the Heritable Jurisdictions (Scotland) Act 1746. The sheriff courts...
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Nithsdale (category Districts of Scotland)
and Eskdale) lost their hereditary rulers under the Heritable Jurisdictions (Scotland) Act 1746. The custom continued of describing Dumfriesshire as...
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Isle of Bute (category Articles containing Scottish Gaelic-language text)
by the Heritable Jurisdictions (Scotland) Act 1746 and counties formally created, on shrieval boundaries, by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889,...
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Drowning pit (section Examples in Scotland)
from the holders of regalities and sheriffdoms by the Heritable Jurisdictions (Scotland) Act 1746. The death penalty had largely fallen into disuse by...
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Ad vitam aut culpam (category Judiciary of Scotland)
Pensions Act 1959 and section 26 of the Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993. Section 29 of the Heritable Jurisdictions (Scotland) Act 1746 (20 Geo...
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Scotland. This register was brought into force by the Heritable Jurisdictions (Scotland) Act 1746. Service of heirs is legal process in which an heir to...
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County of Bute (category Former counties of Scotland)
abolished by the Heritable Jurisdictions (Scotland) Act 1746, after which sheriffs were appointed by the crown. The Sheriffs (Scotland) Act 1747 then placed...
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