Talk:List of acts of the Parliament of Scotland

message: I was going to have a go at a couple of Acts ("Education" ones of the C17th). However, the 1696 act, to pick an example, is redlinked as Education Act (1696) and as Act for the Settling of Schools. The second, so far as I can tell, is the technically correct name. Indeed, every Act of the Scots Parliament pre-1707 that I know the title of starts "Act ..." viz. "Act for the Settling of Schools", "Act anent Peace and War", "Act for the Security of the Kingdom", "Act for the establishment of the 'Company of Scotland' ...", "Act anent the Supremacy" and so on. So, before I start scribbling, I had better ask if anyone has an opinion on naming. Angus McLellan  (Talk) 21:01, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The original name seems the best option, and indeed the only option for ones excluded from the Statute Law Revision (Scotland) Act 1964. However, for those that were renamed in 1964, the alternative name should also be given in the first sentence in bold. No strong feelings about this, but however we do it we should try to be as consistent as poss, and be explicit and clear about the alt names in each article, linking to the 1964 act. --Mais oui! 22:33, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks to both for the helpful answers ! Angus McLellan  (Talk) 22:37, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Naming of Acts ?

message: So, I tripped across a cheap copy (originally £185!) of the Chronological Table of the Statutes yesterday, which has a fifty-page list of all pre-Union Scottish acts tucked in the back. And there's some weirdness going on.
Unlike the English ones, which are annotated as "52 Hen III c.9", nice and simple, these have two numberings. The first is the Record Edition numbering; it goes linearly in chapter number, resetting every now and again... and often twice in a year, so 1424 has the May 26 laws (c.1-27), then it has the March 12 laws (c.1-25), then we go on to 1425 (c.1-23), 1426 (c.1-7) and 1427 (c.1-8 on July 1, c.1-12 on March 1).
We also have a 12mo edition numbering, which has one long list of chapter numbers for the whole of a reign - so it starts in May 1424 with c.1 and rolls right through to c.149 in 1436, breaking this up by "Parl. 1-1424", "Parl. 2-1424", "Parl. 3-1425", ... "Parl. 13-1436"
There's an occasional unnumbered one in each, so the numbers aren't in synch (the Royal Mines Act is either c.12 of James I or c.13 of the May parliament of 1425), and often one will have a chapter number in one system but not the other. And, just to confuse matters further, of course... we're dealing with old-style dates, so the second 1424 Parliament was actually in 1425 (new style).
Thoughts on what this lot means? I'm pretty confused now. Shimgray | talk | 09:33, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Act numbering 

message: The University of St Andrews is producing a database of pre-union Scottish statutes which is due to go online sometime this year at the website http://www.rps.ac.uk/
Hopefully this will enable a more complete list than we currently have. Kurando | ^_^ 10:01, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Database 

message: I renamed it based on the Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707 site, and moved it to coincide with the date on the Parliamentary Register. The site gives the "Translation" information as:
: William II: Translation
: 1700, 29 October, Edinburgh, Parliament
: Parliamentary Register
: Friday 31 January 1701
: Legislation
: Act for preventing wrongful imprisonment and against undue delays in trials
I also added the "c. 6", which is not on the website. Notuncurious (talk) 06:16, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moved and renamed "wrongous Imprisonment" Act 

message: This article is linked to from Wikipedia's Main Page today (7 December 2008), due to the new Golf in Scotland article appearing as the lead item in the Did you know? column. --Mais oui! (talk) 09:49, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Linked from Main page today 

message: Adding move template because capitalisation is wrong. James500 (talk) 18:41, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Move

message: Can anyone substantiate this act? The editor's other contributions appear to be fictitious, flavoured with some truth. Like those creations, this has only, old written reference(s). Finavon (talk) 19:04, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Foreign Declarations Act 1585

message: A number of the titles of Acts of 1424 on this list have been tagged as Middle English. The tags are unreferenced, they are not accompanied by any explanation, and they have only been applied to eleven of the twenty-one Acts listed by their titles for that year. It is not obvious that the titles are not in fact Early Scots. A number of sources say that Scots or "Inglis" was used for Acts of Parliament: Edinburgh Companion to Scots, p 8; Spelling Scots, p 17; "The Spelling of Scots", in Routledge Handbook at p 295. James500 (talk) 16:55, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Middle English?

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