The Book of Scotland: By William ChambersR. Buchanan, 1830 - 532 Seiten |
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... tention to accuracy , must have escaped the author in the anxieties consequent on the concentration and arrange- ment of so many minute matters of fact of a various character . PREFACE . vii It may be necessary to state ,
... tention to accuracy , must have escaped the author in the anxieties consequent on the concentration and arrange- ment of so many minute matters of fact of a various character . PREFACE . vii It may be necessary to state ,
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... character , and resembling in some measure those of the Lord Chief Justice of England . As his name implies , he was at the head of all matters connected with either law or justice , and in his administration , he was assisted by a ...
... character , and resembling in some measure those of the Lord Chief Justice of England . As his name implies , he was at the head of all matters connected with either law or justice , and in his administration , he was assisted by a ...
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... character . His salary was only £ 200 a - year ; but he derived a large contingent revenue from fines , fees of escheated property , customs , and other matters . This office was abolished , we believe , ten or eleven years previous to ...
... character . His salary was only £ 200 a - year ; but he derived a large contingent revenue from fines , fees of escheated property , customs , and other matters . This office was abolished , we believe , ten or eleven years previous to ...
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... character , which was the delight of the lower and middling ranks of society ; and the want of which after the union , was a matter of serious regret to many of the trades in the city . This ceremony was called the Riding of the ...
... character , which was the delight of the lower and middling ranks of society ; and the want of which after the union , was a matter of serious regret to many of the trades in the city . This ceremony was called the Riding of the ...
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... character ; but each division of the triune body had assigned to it par- ticular duties . The first was invested with the most unlimited authority regarding the admission of public or private bills into the House , which it could either ...
... character ; but each division of the triune body had assigned to it par- ticular duties . The first was invested with the most unlimited authority regarding the admission of public or private bills into the House , which it could either ...
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Act of Parliament amount appointed authority bills bishops Britain called cause character church circumstances civil classes clergy clerk commissioners congregations constitution Court of Session creditors criminal crown custom debtor debts duties Edinburgh elected endowments England English entails Episcopal erected establishment estates execution expense Faculty of Advocates fees heirs heritable heritors instances institution judges judicial jurisdiction jury justice Justiciary king kingdom kirk land letters of horning Lord Advocate Lord Justice Clerk magistrates Majesty matter ment ministers mode moveable nation nature Pandects parish Parliament of England Parliament of Scotland payment peculiar peers period persons poor possess presbyterian present principles privileges procured racter registers regulations royal burghs sanctuary schools Scot Scotch Scotland Scottish banks Scottish parliament sheriff society species statutes stipends teinds tion town Union usages whole writ
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 503 - That the two kingdoms of England and Scotland shall upon the first day of May which shall be in the year one thousand seven hundred and seven, and for ever after, be united into one kingdom by the name of Great Britain...
Seite 503 - THIS INDENTURE made the twenty sixth day of June in the thirtieth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith &c.
Seite 504 - An act declaring the rights and liberties of the subject, and settling the succession of the crown...
Seite 504 - An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject...
Seite 511 - Britain for the time being and that the Court of Admiralty now established in Scotland be continued and that all reviews reductions or suspensions of the sentences in maritime cases competent to the jurisdiction of that court remain in the same manner after the union as now in Scotland until the Parliament of Great Britain shall make such regulations and alterations as shall be judged expedient for the whole United Kingdom...
Seite 515 - Act for securing the Protestant religion and Presbyterian Church government within the kingdom of Scotland is as follows. OUR sovereign lady and the estates of Parliament considering that by the late Act of Parliament for a treaty with England for an union of both kingdoms it is provided that the commissioners for that treaty should not treat of or concerning any alteration of the worship discipline and government of the Church of this kingdom as now by law established...
Seite 518 - That all laws and statutes in either kingdom, so far as they are contrary to or inconsistent with the terms of these articles or any of them, shall from and after the union cease and become void, and shall be so declared to be by the respective Parliaments of the said kingdoms.
Seite 519 - Queen's most excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal and the commons in this present Parliament assembled and by authority of the same...
Seite 510 - ... that the laws which concern public right, policy and civil government may be made the same throughout the whole united kingdom, but that no alteration be made in laws which concern private right except for evident utility of the subjects within Scotland.
Seite 518 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the Laws of God, the true Profession of the Gospel, and the Protestant Reformed Religion established by law? And will you maintain and preserve inviolably the Settlement of the Church of England, and the Doctrine, Worship, Discipline, and Government thereof, as by law established in England?