Some more legal terms for translation.
There is a lot this time so have broken the alphabet down and will post in stages.
Usual story, terms in bold on the left and definition in brackets.
Thanks again.
Absolvitor (The judgement pronounced when a court assoilzies a party.)
Accountant in Bankruptcy (The administrative supervisor of sequestrations and personal insolvency.)
Accountant of Court (An officer of court who supervises the conduct of judicial factors.)
Accused (A person charged with committing a crime or offence.)
Act and warrant (The interlocutor in sequestration proceedings which confirms the appointment of the trustee)
Action (Proceedings instituted by a person in a civil court.)
Acts of Adjournal (Regulations as to court procedure made by the High Court of Justiciary in criminal law.)
Acts of Sederunt (Acts passed by the Lords of Council and Session relating to civil procedure.)
Ad factum praestandum (For the performance of a certain act.)
Ad fundandam jurisdictionem (For the purpose of founding jurisdiction)
Ad hoc (Referring only to a particular case or to a specified set of circumstances.)
Ad infinitum (Without limit.)
Ad interim (In the meantime.)
Adjudication (An action used to take possession of heritable property, i.e. where a seller of land refuses to give a conveyance to the buyer, or as a means of taking a debtor’s land to satisfy his creditor’s claim for debt.)
Adjust (To alter the written basis of an action or its defence in its early stages.)
Ad litem (For the purposes of this action only.)
Ad longum (At length)
Administration Order (A court order appointing an administrator for a company in financial difficulties but not hopelessly insolvent.)
Adoption (The statutory process whereby the parental rights and duties of natural parents are extinguished and vested in adopters.)
Ad valorem (According to value.)
Ad vitam aut culpam (For life or till fault.)
Advocate (A member of the Scottish Bar.)
Advocate-depute (An advocate appointed by the Lord Advocate to prosecute under his directions, and paid by salary.)
Advocate, Lord (A senior of the Scottish Bar who is the Government’s chief legal adviser in Scottish matters with responsibilities including the prosecution of crime and the drafting of legislation for Scotland.)
Affidavit (A signed statement made on oath. Some cases which come before the Court can be dealt with by affidavit evidence. This is basically a sworn statement which the Court has regard to and means witnesses don’t have to turn up. It saves a good deal of time but can only be used in certain types of case (where there is no real dispute) as a written statement cannot be cross-examined.)
Aliment (Support or maintenance of a spouse or child enforceable by law.)
Allocated to a Roll (Assigned to a particular court and Judge / Sheriff)
Animus (Will or intention)
Appearance (The formal act whereby the defender in an action intimates his intention to defend.)
Arrestment (Legal attachment of money or moveable property in the hands of a third party.)
Articles of Roup (Conditions of sale by auction.)
Assignation (The transfer of a right from one party to another.)
Assize (In Scotland this word is occasionally and formally used to mean a jury.)
Assoilzie (Criminal - to acquit or find not guilty; Civil - to find for the defender/respondent.)
Auditor of Court (A person charged with the duty of examining accounts. The Auditors of the Court of Session and Sheriff Courts respectively examine and are said to “tax” accounts of expenses incurred by parties in civil actions in the respective courts.)
Aver (To state or allege.)
Avizandum (Judgement deferred (verbal or written decision to be given later).)
Bail (In criminal proceedings an arrangement for the release of an accused person pending trial or sentence formerly requiring a deposit of money subject to forfeiture but under recent statutory provisions replaced in most cases by a conditional release subject to penalties.)
Bond and Disposition in Security (Mortgage secured over real (heritable) property.)
Bond of Caution (Where the Court appoints someone to act on behalf of another (judicial factors etc.) it requires that they put up some cash (the bond) so that they will act properly. If they don’t those who are disadvantaged have something there to recompense them. Note - ‘Caution’ is pronounced to rhyme with station.)
Books of Adjournal (The books or records of the Justiciary Office.)
Books of Council and Session (A popular title for the Registers of Deeds and Probative Writs in which, according to the directions they contain, deeds, etc., may be registered for preservation or preservation and execution.)
Books of Sederunt (Records of the Acts of Sederunt in the Court of Session.)
Brevitatis causa (For the sake of brevity)
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