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Ministers Act 1693 Our Soveraigne Lord and Lady The King and Queens Majesties with Advice and Consent of the Estates of Parliament Ratify Approve and perpetually Confirme the fyfth Act of the Second Session of this Current Parliament Entituled Act Ratifying the Confession of Faith and Settleing Presbyterian Church Government In the whole Heads Articles and Clauses thereof And do further Statute and Ordaine that no person be Admitted or continued for hereafter to be a minister or preacher within this Church unless that he . . . subscribe the Confession of Faith Ratifyed in the forsaid fifth Act of the Second Session of Parliament Declaring . . . likewise that he owns and achnowledges Presbyterian Church Government as settled by the forsaid ffith Act of the Second Session of this Parliament to be the only Government of this Church And that he will submitt thereto and concurre therewith and never endeavour directly or indirectly the prejudice or subversion thereof And their Majesties with Advice and Consent forsaid Statute and Ordain that Uniformity of Worship and of the Administration of all publick Ordinances within this Church be Observed by all the saids Ministers and Preachers as the samen are at present performed and allowed therein or shall be herafter Declared by the Authority of the same And that no minister or preacher be admitted or continued for hereafter unless that he subsribe to observe and do actually observe the foresaid Uniformity And . . . Their Majesties with Advice and Consent foresaid Doe Hereby Statute and Ordaine that the Lords of their Majesties Privy Councill and all other Magistrates Judges and Officers of Justice give all due assistance for makeing the Sentences and Censures of the Church and Judicatures thereof to be obeyed or otherways effectuall as accords
Registration Act 1693 Our Soveraigne Lord and Lady The King and Queens Majesties with Advice and Consent of the Estates of Parliament Statute and Declare That all Writs registrable may be registrate after the death of the Creditor at the Instance of his Heir Executor or Assigney as well as of before and that upon production of a Service or Retoure in the case of Bonds or other Writs heretable or of a Confirmed Testament containing the Bond or other Writ In case they be moveable or of ane speciall Assignation tho not Intimate In the case of either which Registration shall have the same effect both as to probation and summar Execution as if the Creditor were still on life And farther It is Statute That if it shall happen the pursuer to decease at any time dureing the dependence of any process raised at his instance there shall be noe need for hereafter for his Heir Executor or Assigney to raise and obtaine a transferring active but the said Heir Executor or Assigney is hereby allowed upon production of his Service or Retour Confirmed Testament or Speciall Assignation tho not intimate to insist in the principall cause sicklike in all respects as the Pursuer at whose Instance the process was raised might do if he were still on Life but prejudice to Transferrings passive conform to the former practique as accords
Vitious Intromitters Act 1696 Our Soveraign Lord considering that many times the nearest of kin and others doth Intromit with the moveables of persons deceist without Confirmation and imbazles the saids moveables in defraud of lawfull Creditors and when they come to be pursued at the instance of any of the Creditors for being lyable to the defuncts debt as vitious intromitters they ordinarly defend themselves with this pretence that there is ane Executor Creditor confirmed befor the intenting of the action Wheras a third party Confirming Executor Creditor in a particular subject ought not to free the intromitter from the passive title of vitious intromissions when the intromitter has no right from the Executor Creditor Therfor for obviating such frauds in time comeing His Majestie with advice and consent of the Estates of Parliament Statutes Ordaines and Declares that the nearest of kin and others intromitters with the moveables of any defunct who are not Executors confirmed to them nor hath right from the Executor Creditor befor his intromission are and shall be lyable as vitious intromitters notwithstanding that there is a third party Confirmed Executor in a particular debt or subject
Register of Sasines Act Our Soveraigne Lord and Lady The King and Queens Majesties Considering That the many good Acts appointing Registers of Sasines Reversions Hornings Inhibitions Interdictions Allowances of Apprizings or Adjudications that Purchasers and Creditors might know with whom they might safely contract have been much frustrated by the Keepers of the Registers not inserting the same in the Registers at the time and in the order they were presented to them whereby none could know by Inspection of the Registers what Writs appointed to be registrate were in the hands of the Keepers of the Registers and thereby could not securely bargain For Remeed whereof Their Majesties with advice and consent of the Estates of Parliament Doe Statute and Ordain That all the Keepers of the said Registers shall keep Minute Books of all Writs presented to them to be registrate in their severall Registers Expressing the day . . . when and the names and designations of the persons by whom the saids Writs shall be presented and that the said minute be immediately signed by the presenter of the writ and also by the Keeper, and patent to all the Lieges who shall desire Inspection of it gratis And that the Writs shall be registrate exactly conform to the Order of the said Minute Book . . .
Citation Act 1693 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . It is hereby expressly provyded That all Copies of Summonds Charges Inhibitions Arrestments or other Letters whatsoever given to the Party shall bear at length and not in figures the day and date of the delivery thereof As also the names and designations of the Witnesses in such sort as the Execution and Indorsation did and doth bear the same Certifyeing the Messenger who shall omitt to insert the said day and date and witnesses in his Copy that he shall incurre deprivation and tinsell of his Office
Fisheries Act 1705 Our Sovereign Lady and the Estates of Parliament taking to consideration the great and many advantages that may arise to this Nation by encouraging the Salmond White and Herring fishings they being not only a natural and certain fund to advance the trade and increase the wealth thereof but also a true and ready way to breed seamen and set many poor and idle people to work And albeit there be several good acts already made to encourage and carry on that trade yet they are either in dissuetude defective or do not answer the present circumstances Therefore that so great and general a concern may take effect in time coming Her Majesty with advice and consent of the Estates of Parliament Authorizes and Impowers all her good subjects of this Kingdom to take buy and cure herring and white fish in all sundry and seas channells bays firths lochs rivers etc. of this her Majesties ancient Kingdom and Islands thereto belonging wheresoever herring or white fish are or may be taken And for their greater conveniency to have the free use of all ports harbours shoars fore-lands and others for bringing in pickeling drying unloading and loading the same upon payment of the ordinary dues where harbours are built that is such as are paid for ships boats and other goods and Discharges all other exactions as a nights fishing in the week commonly called Saturday’s fishing top money stallage and the like . . .
Udal Tenure Act 1690 (repealed)
Confirmation Act 1690 Our Soveraigne Lord and Lady the King and Queens Majesties and three Estates of Parliament Considering the great vexatione occasioned to their Majesties Leidges by Commissars and their Clerks fiscalls and officers chargeing them to confirme the Testaments of their deceast Relations Doe hereby discharge and forbid in all tyme comeing all Commissars and their ffiscalls Clerkes and officers to Charge pursue or require any persone to confirme the Testament or give up Inventary of the goods of any other persone defunct except at the instance of the Relict bairnes nearest of Kin and their Tutors and Curators or of a Creditor Declareing all charges pursuites and executions otherwise made and given to be void and Null And farder Their Majesties with consent forsaid Declare that where speciall assignations and dispositions are lawfully made by the defunct tho neither intimate nor made publick in his lifetime they shall be yet good and valid rights and titles to possess bruike enjoy pursue or defend Albeit the soumes of money or goods therein contained be not confirmed without prejudice alwayes to the competitione of Creditors and others and of their rights and diligences as formerly before the makeing heirof
Citation Act 1686 Our Soveraigne Lord with advice and Consent of his Estates of Parliament Statuts and ordaines That in tyme coming all Citations befor the Lords of Session and Citations befor any other Judges Civil or Criminall which formerly by Law or custome used to be in writt and all executions of letters of horning inhibition and others whatsomever be subscrived by the executor therof and the witnesses therto Otherways to be null and void And that the same shall not be quarrellable for the want of stamping any Law or Practique to the contrar Notwithstanding
Bills of Exchange Act 1681 OUR Soveraigne Lord Considering how necessary it is for the flourishing of Trade That Bills or Letters of Exchange be duly payed and have ready Execution conform to the custom of other parts Doeth therefore with advice and consent of his Estates of Parliament Statute and Ordain that in case of any forraigne Bill of Exchange from or to this Realm duly protested for not acceptance or for not payment The said Protest having the Bill of Exchange prefixed shall be registrable within Six moneths after the date of the said Bill in case of Non-acceptance or after the falling due thereof in case of non-payment in the books of Councill and Session or other competent Judicatures at the instance of the person to whom the same is made payable or his ordor either against the Drawer or Indorser in case of ane protest for non-acceptance Or against the Accepter in case of a protest for Non-payment to the effect it may have the authoritie of the Judges therof interponed therto That . . . executorials necessary may pass therupon for the whole Sums contained in the Bill as well exchange as principall in form as effeirs Sicklike and in the same manner as upon Registrat Bonds or Decreets of Registration proceiding upon consent of parties Providing always that if the saids Protests be not duly Registrat within Six Moneths in manner above provided Then and in that case The saids Bills and protests are not to have summar execution but only to be pursued by way of Ordinary Action as accords And Farther It is hereby Statute and Enacted that the Sums contained in all Bills of Exchange bear annualrent in case of not acceptance from the date thereof And in case of Acceptance and not payment from the day of their falling due ay and while the payment thereof And Farther His Majesty with advice foresaid hereby declares That notwithstanding of the foresaid summar Execution provided to follow upon Bills of Exchange for the Sums therein contained in manner above specified Yet it shall be leisom to the party charger to pursue for the Exchange if not contained in the saids Bills with re-exchange dammage Interest and all expences before the Ordinary Judge or in cais of Suspension to eek the same to the Charge at the discussing of the said Suspension To the effect that the same may be liquidat and Decreet given therfore either against the party principal or against him and his Cautioners as accords
Entail Act 1685 (repealed)
Declinature Act 1681 Our Soveraigne Lord Considering that by the Declinature Act 1594 It is expressly statute and Ordained that no Senatour of the College of Justice . . . shall sit or vote in the Causes of their Father Brother and Son Doeth with advice and consent of his Estates of Parliament Statute and Ordain that this Declinatour shall for the future be farder extended to degrees of Affinity as well as Consanguinity So that in all time coming No Senatour of the Colledge of Justice . . . shall sit or vote in Causes wher the pursuer or defender is either ffather Brother or Son in Law to him And also that he shall not sit or vote in any cause where he is Uncle or Nephew to the Pursuer or Defender And it is heirby declared that this Act shall be extended to . . . the Commissioners of the Justiciary And to all other Judges and Judicatures in the Kingdom who may be declined wher they are related to the party pursuer or Defender in the Degrees forsaids
Adjudications Act 1672 The Kings Maiestie . . . Doth with advice and consent of his Estates of Parliament Statute and Ordaine . . . that noe Compriseings shall be led in time comeing of any Lands or other rights which are not allreadie comprised . . . It is allwayes heirby provided and declaired that . . . it shall be leisum to the Creditor to adjudge all or any right belonging to his Debitor in the same maner as he might have apprised the same Conforme to the act of Parliament 1661 anent the payment of debts betuixt debitor and Creditor in all pointes vnder the reversion and with the power competent to others Creditors exprest in the said act And it is heirby Declaired that neither the Superior nor the Adjudger shall be prejudged by this Act bot that they shall be in the same case aftir citation in this Process of Adjudication as if appriseing wer led of the lands at that time and a charge given to the Superior thervpon . . .
Lyon King of Arms Act 1669 OUR Soverane Lord with advice and consent of the Estates of Parliament Ratifies and approves . . . the gift and signature past and exped be his Maiesties wmquhill dearest father King Charles the first of ever glorious memorie To and in favours of the Lyon King at Armes and his breethren heraulds and pursevants their Clerk of Court and thair successors dated at Halyrudehous the tuentie sevent day of Junii 1633 yeers with all the priveledges emoluments and casualities thairin contained And that als fully and amplie in all respects as if the particular priveledges therin insert wer heirin verbatim expressed and wer granted to the said Lyon and others therin comprehendit by a particular act bearing originally the saids concessions and priveledges
March Dykes Act 1669 Wheras by the fourty one act of the first Session of his Maiesties first Parliament Entituled Act for planting and incloseing of ground It is provyded that whair inclosers fall to be vpon the borders of any mans inheritance The next adjacent heretor shall be at equall pains and charges in building ditching and planting that dike which divyds their inheritance And the Estates of Parliament Considering the inconveniency and difficulty the execution of that parte of the said act may meit with in lands marching together wher the marches are crooked and vnequall Or wher any parte of the bordering ground is vnfit or incapable of bearing a dyk or receaveing a ditch or hinders the compleiting of the inclosure in ane equal line For remeid whairof his Maiestie with advice and consent of the saids Estates Doth Statute and Ordain That whensoever any person intends to inclose by a dike or ditch vpon the march betuixt his lands and the lands belonging to other heretors contiguous thervnto It shall be leisum to him to require the next Shirreffs or bailliffs of Regalities Justices of Peace or other Judges ordinar To visite the marches alongst which the said dyke or ditch is to be drawne who are heirby authorized when the saids marches are vneven or otherways incapable of ditch or dike To adjudge such parts of the one or other heretors ground as occasion the inconveniency betuixt them from the one heretor in favours of the other So as may be least to the prejudice of either party And the dike or ditch to be made To be in all tyme therafter the common march betuixt them And the parts so adjudged respective from the one to the other being estimat to the just availl and compensed pro tanto To decerne what remains vncompensed of the price to the party to whom the same is wanting And it is heirby Declared That the parts thus adjudged hinc inde Shall remain and abyd with the lands or tennendries to which they are respective adjudged as parts and pendicles therof in all time comeing
Minority Act 1663 [S] Our Soverane Lord Considering the favourable condition of Minors who are oftentymes destitute of Tutors and Curators And though they have them Yet inrespect of their minority they are not in capacity or credite to raise sumes of money for satisfaction of their Creditors And it being vnreasonable that their Creditors comprisers of their estate should dureing the not expyreing of the legall reversion which according to law continewes dureing their minority have more advantage by their estate then corresponds to the annuellrent of the true sumes ouing to them by vertew of their compriseings Doth with advice and consent of his Estates of Parliament Ratifie and Approve the act of Parliament made in August 1621 cap. 6 in so far as the samen concernes Minors And Declares that the true meaning thairof Wes and is That minors haveing right to the legall reversion should be no further obleidged dureing their minority of 18 years of age Bot allenerlie for the annuallrent of the sums contained in the compriseings And that they losse not the right of the superplus of the maills and dueties of the lands So far as the same exceids the saids annuellrents dureing their said minority
Subscription of Deeds Act 1681 (repealed) Our Soveraigne Lord Considering that by the Custome introduced when writing was not so ordinary Witnesses insert in Writes although not subscryving are probative witnesses And by their forgetfulnes may easily dissowne ther being witnesses For remeid whereof His Majestie with advice and Consent of the Estates of Parliament Doeth enact and Declare that only subscribing Witnesses in writes to be subscribed by any partie hereafter shall be probative and not the witnesses insert not Subscribing And that all such writes to be subscribed heirafter wherein the Writer and witnesses are not designed shall be null And are not supplyable by condescending vpon the Writer or the designation of the writer and Witnesses And it is farder Statute and Declared that no witnes shall subscribe as witnes to any parties subscription Unles he then know that party and saw him Subscribe or saw or heard him give Warrand to a Nottar or Nottars to subscribe for him And in evidence thereof touch the Notars pen Or that the party did at the time of the witnesses subscribing acknowledge his subscription Otherways the saids witnesses shall be repute and punished as accessorie to forgerie And Seing Writting is now so ordinary His Majesty with consent foirsaid Doeth enact and Declare that no witnesses But subscribing witnesses shall be probative in Instruments of Sasine Instruments of Resignation Ad remanentiam Instruments of Intimation of Assignations Translations or Retrocessions to Bands Contracts or other writs which shall happen to be subscribed in any tyme heirafter And that none but subscryving witnesses shall be probative in Executions of Messingers of Inhibitions of Interdictions . . . or Arrestments And that no Execution whatsoever to be given hereafter shall be sufficient to inferr Interruption of Prescription in real Rights Unles the same be done before witnesses present at the doing thereof subscribing And that in all the saids caices The witnesses be designed in the body of the write Instrument or Execution respective Otherways the same shall be null and void And make no faith in Judgment nor outwith
Oaths of Minors Act 1681(repealed 25.9.1991) Our Soveraigne Lord and Estates of Parliament taking to their serious Consideration the great abuses which may be committed against Minors within 18 years of Age compleat by causing them Subscribe Bonds of borrowed money Contracts of Alienation of their Lands Dispositions Discharges and other writes of Importance and ratify the same by Oath swearing that they shall never come in the contrary therby depriving them of all the benefite of Revocation Reduction and Restitution In Integrum allowed to them by the Laws of this Kingdom wher such Oaths are not made It is therefore Statute and ordained by the Kings Majesty with advice and consent of the saids Estates That no such Oaths shall be exacted in time coming And in caice of Contravention Declares the Contract to be void and null and that no Execution shall pass therupon And declares the Elicitor or Exacter of the oath to be Infamous And it is hereby declared that it shall be competent to any person related to the Minor to obtain the saids Writs to be declared void and null by way of Action exception or Reply
Writs Act 1672 The Kings Maiestie . . . With advice of his Estates of Parliament . . . vndirstanding the great trouble and inconveniencies occasioned by the wreatting of long Charters and vther wreatts which pas the sealls afoirsaid in one broad parchement of soe great lenth and largenes that they can hardly be read Doth for remeid thereof . . . Statute and Ordaine that it shall be frie to any persone who hath any Charter or wreatt to be wreatten for the great or privie sealls to choice whither to have the same written in a broad skin of parchment as formerlie or to have them wreaten by way of a booke in leaves of parchment aboute the breadth of ane ordinary sheat of paper and accordingly the Writers to the great and privie sealls are heirby Ordained to write and exped the same And if they shall be written in the way of a booke that each page be signed and marked by them as said is Which being done the respective sealls are to be appended thereto in maner following videlicet To such as shall be written on a skin of parchment in the ordinary way That the sealls be appended as formerlie And to these which shall be written in the booke way That the sealls be appended vpon a tye or band which is to goe thorow all the Leaves in the Margine And that for doing heirof this shall be a sufficient warrand to all persones concerned
Ann Act 1672 (repealed)
Bonds Act 1661 Our Soverane Lord with advice and consent of his Estates of Parliament for many just and reasonable causes moveing him Statuts and Ordaines That all contracts and obligations for soums of money payable to parties at any tyme made and dated since the sexteinth day of November 1641 or to be made in tyme comeing Containing clauses for payment of annuellrent and proffeit Are and shall be holden and interpret to be moveable bands Except in these caces following videlicet That they beare ane expresse obleidgement to infeft Or that they be conceaved in favours of airs and assignayes secludeing executors In either of which caices Ordaines the sums to be heretable and to pertaine to the air Otherwayes to be confirmed be the executor and to apperteane to the nearest of kin and to the defuncts executors and legators according to the law and practick of moveables Declareing alwayes that all such bonds quoad fiscum shall remaine in the same condition as they wer before the said sexteinth of November 1641 . . .
Prelacy Act 1689 Wheras the Estates of this Kingdome in their Claime of Right of the Eleavinth of Apryll last declared that Prelacie and the superioritie of any office in the church above Presbyters Is and hath been a greate and unsupportable greiveance to this Nation and contrair to the inclinationes of the generalitie of the people ever since the Reformation They haveing reformed from poperie by presbyters and therfor ought to be abolished Our Soveraigne Lord and Lady the King and Queens Majesties with advyce and consent of the Estates of Parliament doe hereby abolish prelacie and all superioritie of any office in the church in this Kingdome above presbyters . . .