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ORDINARY COURT
1 Court books 1541-1754
2 Act books 1704-1987
3 Minute books 1725-1927
4 Diet books 1748-1873
5 Roll books 1807-1988
6 Processes: all classes pre-1901 1714-1900
7 Register of ordinary actions ('A' Register) 1910-1990
7A Index to Register of ordinary actions ('A' Register) 1971-1992
8 'A' processes - ordinary actions 1908-1992
8A Divorce processes 1985-1993
9 Register of summary applications ('B' Register) 1909-1983
10 'B' processes - summary applications 1901-1979
11 Limbo 'B' processes - sequestrations and liquidations 1976-1997
12 'B' processes - executry 1925-1980
12B Curatory processes 1949-1971
13 Records of fatal accident inquiries 1909-1994
14 'B' processes - club applications 1903-1983
15 Register of decrees 1746-1982
15B Register of English and Irish Judgements 1986
16 Process inventory, borrowing and receipt books 1792-1925
17 Process transmission books 1843-1897
18 Register of sequestrations 1840-1993
19 Register of sequestrations for rent 1867-1954
20 Register of poindings and sequestrations 1862-1977
20A Reports of poindings and sales 1972-1983
21 Returned citations book 1925-1962
22 Register of reports of arrestment 1918-1954
23 Register of Sheriff Court factories 1881-1953
24 Register of petitions under the Mental Deficiency and Lunacy (Scotland) Act, 1913 1914-1961
25 Register of indorsations 1904-1937
26 Notes of Progress of Ordinary Actions (Contested Cases) 1889-1914
27 Register of civil jury precepts 1866-1868
28 Register of gamekeepers' certificate 1808-1809
29 Register of clubs 1904-1985
29B Register of premises registered under the Gaming Act 1968 1975-1994
30 Sequestrations - trustees' annual returns 1842-1934
31 Sequestrations - bonds of caution 1840-1878
32 Procurators and sheriff officers - petitions and mandates 1747-1876
33 Adoption register 1950-1983
34 Adoption processes 1931-1953
35 Register of applications under the Dogs Act 1926-1953
35A Register of consignations 1920-1984
WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION
36 Workmen's Compensation Act - Register of memoranda of agreement 1903-1945
37 Workmen's Compensation Act - Minute books of memoranda of agreement 1911-1969
38 Workmen's Compensation Act - Special register - Memoranda of Agreements 1899-1969
39 Workmen's Compensation Act - Register of arbitrations 1937-1954
40 Workmen's Compensation Act - Record of references to medical referees 1905-1936
41 Workmen's Compensation Act - 'D' processes - medical references 1921-1951
42 Workmen's Compensation Act - Ledgers of sums paid into court 1912-1958
43 Workmen's Compensation Act - Sums paid into court - receipts and processes 1921-1957
44 Unallocated
45 Unallocated
SMALL DEBT COURT
46 Small Debt Court books 1825-1976
47 Bathgate Small Debt Circuit Court - Discontinuance Order 1911
48 Unallocated
49 Debts Recovery Court books 1867-1902
50 Debt recovery court processes 1888-1907
SUMMARY REMOVING COURT
51 Summary Removing Court books 1918-1981
52 Unallocated
COMMISSARY COURT
53 Register of inventories and wills 1831-1984
54 Minute books of inventories - see note in Archival History
55 Register of edicts and confirmations 1830-1845
56 Register of confirmations 1927-1992
57 Petitions, edicts of executry, bonds of caution etc - see note in Archival History
57B Register of Petitions (2B Register) 1984-2000
58 Bonds of Caution 1920-1984
59 Commissary fees book - see note in Archival History
60 Index to confirmations 1985-1986
CRIMINAL COURTS
61 Criminal diet books 1911-1904
61B Indictment Registers 1986-1993
62 Record of criminal jury trials 1797-1993
62A Indictments with s102 and Social Equiry Reports (SERs) 1991-1993
63 Criminal and quasi-criminal roll books/Register of cases 1888-1998
64 'C' processes - summary complaints - see note in Archival History
65 Probation orders - see note in Archival History
66 Juvenile Court Register 1940-1963
67 Index to criminal complaints 1968-1989
67A Criminal petition register - see note in Archival History
67B Production register - summary trials - see note in Archival History
REGISTER OF DEEDS
68 Register of deeds 1672-1994
69 Recorded deeds 1701-1953
70 Register of protests 1809-1968
71 Recorded protests 1809-1929
72 Minute books of deeds and protests 1701-1937
73 Unallocated (Register of hornings and inhibitions - transferred to DI 81)
74 Unallocated (Minute books of hornings and inhibitions - transferred to DI 82)
SHERIFF COURT ADMINISTRATIVE RECORDS
75 Jury books [nd]
76 Style and form books [nd]
77 Unallocated
78 Unallocated
79 Scottish Land Court fee book 1917-1931
80 Unallocated
81 Unallocated
82 Rogue money accounts 1815-1870
83 Sheriff Clerk's returns 1823-1879
84 Poor roll orders 1879-1944
85 Register of Notaries Public 1804-1889
86 Complaint against sheriff officer 1895
87 Letter books 1816-1924
88 Register of law agents 1874-1959
89 Unallocated
90 Unallocated
91 Freeholders' minute books 1741-1831
92 Register of improvements on entailed estates 1806-1881
93 Regality of Bo'ness: Court book, register of deeds 1669-1722
94 Lordship of Linlithgow: Court book 1649-1680
95 Commissions of supply records 1741-1809
96 Berwickshire Lieutenancy and Militia records 1809-1815
97 Minute book of Faculty of Writers and Notaries of West Lothian 1705-1728
98 Faculty of Procurators of Linlithgowshire c1862-c1919
99 Election papers and registers 1837-1945
100 Tenancy of shop applications - see note in Archival History
101 Memorials for advice and opinions of council 1890-1922
102 Notice of import of decree of paternity of illegitimate child - see note in Archival History
103 Miscellaneous papers (unsorted) (Sheriff Court and county valuations etc) c1667-1698
104 Unallocated
105 Linlithgow County Constabulary: Reports of charges 1858-1866
106 Registration of Births etc: Appointments of registrars - see note in Archival History
107 Census papers - see note in Archival History
108 Bo'ness Town and Harbour Trustees: Abstracts of income and expenditure 1844-1876
109 Linlithgowshire roads, highways and bridges 1883
110 Burgh of Queensferry; tables of customs, anchorage and shore dues 1844
111 Fiars Court and miscellaneous taxation records 1626-1974
112 Corn Law returns 1796-1821
113 Papers relating to burgh boundaries 1958-1969
114 Unallocated
SOCIAL WORK
115 Social Work Applications 1976-1992
116 Legal Aid Applications - see note in Archival History
MISCELLANEOUS SHERIFF COURT RECORDS
117 Unallocated
118 Unallocated
119 Unallocated
PARLIAMENTARY DEPOSITS: PUBLIC UTILITIES
120 Private legislation; provisional orders and inquiries 1669-1945
SUMMARY CAUSE
121 Registers of summonses for payment (RSC1) 1976-1993
122 Registers of summonses for recovery of possession of heritable property (RSC2) 1976-1984
123 Registers of summonses other than those for payment or recovery of heritable property (RSC3) 1976-1985
124 Summary causes appeal books (RSC4) 1978-1988
125 Registers of incidental applications (RSC5) 1976-1984 |
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Linlithgow Sheriff Court closed in August 2013. Records covering 1983-2013 from Linlithgow and all court business moved to the new Livingston Sheriff Court.
Linlithgow Sheriff Court operates within the Sheriffdom of Lothian and Borders, which also comprises the courts situated at Edinburgh, Jedburgh, Peebles and Selkirk. The court covers the area of West Lothian.
A sheriffdom of Linlithgow existed from the twelth century, but was to some extent subordinate to Edinburgh and was frequently described as a constabulary within the sheriffdom of Edinburgh. It reappeared as a fully independent sheriffdom around 1450. In 1598 Parliament found that Bathgate had been anciently a separate sheriffdom. Following the abolition of the heritable jurisdictions in 1747 the sheriffdoms of Linlithgow and Bathgate were combined under one sheriff-depute. In 1865 the sheriffdom was joined with that of Kinross and Clackmannan to form the sheriffdom of Linlithgow, Clackmannan and Kinross. Then in 1882 Linlithgow was broken form this union and merged with the sheriffdom of Midlothian and Haddington to form the sheriffdom of the Lothians, to which Peebles was added a year later. The present sheriffdom of Lothian and Borders was established in 1975.
Sheriffs (sheriff deputes before 1828) of Linlithgow and Bathgate
1748, 1761 John Gillon
1773 William Baillie, yr, of Polkemmet
1793 David Hume
1811 Joshua Henry Mackenzie
1822 John Cay
Sheriff of Linlithgow, Clackmannan and Kinross
1866 George Monro
For sheriffs of Lothians and Peebles from 1886 see catalogue entry for Edinburgh Sheriff Court, SC39 |