Manuscripta juridica

Ordo iudiciorum Scotiae - details: note about books printed in 1768 and 1799 .

[{i}Text:{/i}] Besides the above authorities, there are two recent publications upon the forms of process, one by John Russel, writer to the Signet, published in 1768, and another by an anonymous author, supposed to be Mr. John Watson, one of the Deputy Clerks in the Bill-Chamber, published in 1799, both of them very accurate. It is thought unnecessary to insert here any passage from them, as they are in the hands of all the practitioners of the Court, and contain the same statements in general which have already been referred to, and others to be found in the Acts of Sederunt of the Court, which will be afterwards introduced. They point out the deviations which have taken place in modern practice, and which in many instances have arisen merely from inattention, and from an improper relaxation or non-observance of many regulations which are still in force, and ought more strictly to have been followed. It will be the duty of the commissioners now appointed to make full enquiry into the modern practice of the Court, to state the outlines of it, and to suggest in their report what improvements ought to be made upon that practice, either by receiving old regulations or by adopting new ones

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Author(s):

• Thomas Thomson(?)

No. of pages: Pag. 121-122