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2. Regulation of Mines and Collieries
3. Regulations as to Chimney-sweepers and Chimneys
CHAP. II.-Regulations directed to the Protection of the Public
Sect. 1. Printers
2. Newspapers and Advertisements
192
194
ib.
195
CHAP. IV.-Roads through Private Property
Sect. 1. Constitution of Servitude Roads
CHAP. V.-Public Vehicles
236
2. Right of the Public in Roads through Private Property 238
243
CHAP. I.-Constables and other Officers of the Law
259
II. The General Burgh Police Act, 3 & 4 William IV. c. 46 261
Sect. 1. General Restrictions on Proceedings as simply obnoxious ib.
19. Perjury, Subornation of Perjury, and False Declaration ib.
20. Treason
329
I. Companies' Clauses Consolidation Act, 8 & 9 Vict. c. 17
II. Lands' Clauses Consolidation Act, 8 & 9 Vict. c. 19
III. Railways' Clauses Consolidation Act, 8 & 9 Vict. c. 33
INDEX
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MANUAL
OF THE
PUBLIC LAW OF SCOTLAND.
PART I.
COURTS OF LAW.
CHAPTER I.
THE COURT OF SESSION.
SECT. 1.-Rise and Progress of Jurisdiction.
THE Court of Session, in its origin and constitution, represented
the judicial authority of the Scottish Parliament. The principal
judge, criminal as well as civil, under our earlier monarchs, was
the king's Justiciar, although in Scotland as well as in England
there were certain remedies which the Chancellor or keeper
of the king's conscience gradually assumed the function of
administering. In the mean time a practice arose of litigants,
discontented with decisions of the ordinary courts, appealing
to the king and his great council or parliament. During
the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries these appeals became
numerous, and inconvenient to a legislative body; and
methods were frequently adopted to discourage them. Vari-
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