About this book
My library
Raamatud teenuses Google Play
CONTENTS.
PART I.
COURTS OF LAW.
CHAP. I.-The Court of Session
Sect. 1. Rise and Progress of Jurisdiction
2. Present Jurisdiction
3. Arrangement of Business in Ordinary Cases
4. Arrangement of Business in Jury Cases
5. Officers of the Court
CHAP. II.-Appeals and Jurisdiction of the House of Lords
III.-Court of Justiciary
IV.-Court of Exchequer
V.-Sheriffs
Sect. 1. Historical Notice
2. Civil Jurisdiction
3. Criminal Jurisdiction
CHAP. VI.-Corporation Courts
Sect. 1. Burgh Courts
2. Dean of Guild
CHAP. VII.-Justices of the Peace
Sect. 1. Constitution
2. Jurisdiction
3. Courts
PART II.
THE MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATURE.
CHAP. I.
Election of Representative Peers
II. Election of Members of the House of Commons
Sect. 1. Voters in Counties
Page
1
ib.
5
9
11
13
15
17
18
19
21
22
24
25
29
31
32
Sect. 2. Voters in Burghs
3. Claims
4. Registration Court
5. Proclamation of Writ
6. Polling
7. Disqualifications
8. Bribery and Treating
9. Controverted Elections
CHAP. III.—Privileges of Members of Parliament
37
38
40
41
43
45
46
PART III.
PUBLIC CIVIL INSTITUTIONS.
CHAP. I.-Corporations in General
2. Responsibility of Members
CHAP. II. Constitution and Administration of Burghs
Sect. 1. Constitution of Royal Burghs
2. Property, Revenue, and Expenditure of Royal Burghs
3. Burghs of Regality and Barony
CHAP. III.-Municipal Elections
Sect. 1. Qualifications and Claims in Royal Burghs .
2. Local Acts
CHAP. VI.-Savings Banks
Sect. 1. Banks established under the Old Act
2. Establishment of a Savings Bank
3. Deposits and Interest
4. Succession to Shares
5. Annuities
6. Officers and their Duties
7. Investment of Property
CHAP. VII.-Friendly Societies
Sect: 1. Constitution
2. Privileges
3. Rules
54
CHAP. II.-Presentation and Collation of Ministers
101
Sect. 1. Patronage
2. Licentiates
103
3. Admission to a Charge, and Discussion of Objections
105
CHAP. III.-Ecclesiastical Edifices and their Appurtenances
Sect. 1. Building and Repairing Churches
117
Sect. 1. Origin, Early History, and Division into Parsonage and
Vicarage
122
lished Church
CHAP. V.-Members of Religious Communities other than the Estab-
Sect. 1. Laws affecting their Persons
2. Contracts by Religious Communities
136
139
PART V.
REVENUE AND TAXATION,
CHAP. I.-Commissioners of Supply and Land-Tax
II.-Assessed Taxes
III.-Income Tax
Sect. 1. General Nature
2. Special Regulations and Remedies
142
144
146
148
CHAP. IV.-Excise
153
CHAP. I.-Regulations directed to the Protection of the Employed
Sect. 1. Factory Regulations
189