THE PUBLIC STATUTES RELATING TO RAILWAYS IN SCOTLAND WITH APPENDIX CONTAINING THE ACT OF SEDERUNT REGULATING APPEALS FROM THE RAILWAY RULES: AND THE RULES REGULATING APPLI- EDITED AND ANNOTATED BY JAMES FERGUSON, ADVOCATE AUTHOR OF RAILWAY RIGHTS AND DUTIES,' 1888; 'FIVE YEARS RAILWAY CASES,' 1994; EDINBURGH 1898 All rights reserved uk/sc 352.10 E98 PREFATORY NOTE THIS Volume contains the Public Acts relating to Scotland which are mainly concerned with the rights and relations of Railway Companies, and the relevant sections of other Public Acts which contain provisions specially affecting Railways. To these have been added two Private Acts—the Clearing House Act of 1850 (p. 155), and an example of the Scottish Railway Rates and Charges Order Confirmation Act, 1892 (p. 420)—which are, either directly or pari ratione, of general application, and are necessary to a comprehensive view of the relations of Railway Companies and the full apprehension of general traffic legislation. The Editor has frequently felt in his own experience the want of a modern collection of the Railway Acts, and the same desire has been emphatically expressed to him by professional brethren in the daily practice of the Courts. A mere collection of Statutes, however fully annotated, can never supply the place of a well-arranged and exhaustive treatise on Railway Law, and, on the other hand, such a treatise requires to be supplemented and applied by frequent reference to the ipsissima verba of the Statutes. The present volume has been prepared with the intention of affording in the annotations, as far as possible, references to the cases which directly construe the terms of the sections, and a ready guide to those passages of the Scottish textbook on the subject which supply the accumulation of case law that clusters round the statutory provisions. The endeavour has been, without unnecessary repetition, to provide a comprehensive collection of the Acts relating to Railways which will, along with the Author's extended edition (1897) of the Law of Railways applicable to Scotland, in a convenient form for practical use, meet the views of those engaged in the daily handling of railway suits and railway interests. The Appendix contains the important Act of Sederunt regulating |