Public Records (Scotland) Act 1809

Whereas irregularities and inconveniences have arisen or may arise from the unnecessary multiplicity of registers in Scotland in which deeds and other writings may be competently recorded, either for execution or for preservation: And whereas the laws heretofore devised for regulating the formation and custody of the public records, and more especially of those in the local registries throughout Scotland, have not been found effectual; and it is of high importance that the whole of the public records within that part of the United Kingdom should be placed under one general and effectual plan of management and controul: And whereas by an M1 Act of the Parliament of Scotland passed on the thirteenth day of June in the year one thousand six hundred and eighty-five, intituled “Act concerning the registration of writs in the books of session,” it is inter alia statuted and ordained “that no clerk of inferior court for the future presume to registrate any writs in his books, either for conservation or where execution is to pass against any party that dwells without the jurisdiction, under the pain of deprivation and of five hundred merks of penalty, the one half to his Majesty, and the other half to the party pursuer,” which provisions of the aforesaid Act it has become necessary to renew, modify and enlarge:

Marginal Citations

M1 Scots Act 1685 c. 47.