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| Reference: |
JC27 |
| Title: |
Processes, Supplementary |
| Dates: |
1507-1839 |
| Access status: |
Open |
| Description: |
Most of the processes (papers covering the whole of a case from beginning to end) in this series are very fragmentary: many of them consist of single documents. The main processes series, JC26, should be checked to ensure all papers relating to a case are found. As recataloguing of JC26 proceeds, processes are being transferred from this series and reunited with JC26.
The series contains papers, which, at an unknown period, strayed from the main series JC26. The earlier material in this section was probably separated out as an example of notable trials or of particular types of crime.
The series includes 16th century processes, including:
* Perambulations of marches (the annual practice of officials walking the boundaries of their burgh to ensure that the correct income was given over to monarch in return for trading privileges and self governance).
* records that cover a formal letter to a law court asking for a particular legal action (petitions) to the Lords of Council in justiciary cases (1525-39)
* Precognitions (from the Latin prae-, "before" and cognitio, "acquiring knowledge") concerning anti-Episcopal riots in Glasgow (1714)
* papers of William Skirving, tried for conduct inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state, legally know as sedition (1794)
* evidence, for instance: objects, medical reports etc., used to support a finding or argument during a trial (productions) from the trial of the Pollokshaws weavers (1813)
* Indictments not called, that is, document(s) setting out the details of the offence a defendant is accused of. In this case the individual(s) were not formally called to attend court. (1850-1971)
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