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Fragments of the same kind - in ilialpartial collections
of materials documents similar to those of which the compleat collection is here of which is here those here proposed
to be required — materials fit to out the regularly formed and published — so materials for
of the proposed Calendar of Delinquency - are not altogether
wanting under the Scotch Law. By the 16th Anno
ch.17.s.4. inferior Judges and Magistrates are .... required
.... to make up particular accounts of such criminal
"facts.... as are to be tried within their respective Circuits,
"continuing the names and designation of the
"Offenders, the facts committed with the circumstances
"of time and place, and others that may serve to
"discover the truth: containing also the names and
"deisignations of the witnesses, and the titles of such
"Writes" (pieces of written evidence) "as are to be made
"use of at the trials": which documents after being
authenticated by the signature of the Judges and Magistrates
therein mentioned, or their Deputies or Clerks
are to be + transmitted.."to the Lord Justice Clerk or
"his Deputies at Edinburgh, at least forty days before
"the holding of the respective Courts Circuit Courts" at
at which the trials are to take place:— and the one, for
which these documents are required, is declared to be the serving as a ground for the several indictment in each instance
This (it may occurr) does not seem up altogether
to the present purpose: since the notion, under which the documents
required in question are regarded, as in that of their being necessary to
the trick of each rendering of justice when the time comes in each
particular case, andso that they are not designed to serve merely
as memorials, showing other of what has been done, with a view
to collateral and distinct purposes, what has been done and taken place,
in so many instances.
The following provision however, is, as far as it
goes, precisely in point. By 20.G.s.c.43.SS.19 , the Act
for the abolition of heritable jurisdictions+, no person + 20.G.2.c.43.SS.19
"shall be committed...in order to trial..for any assaults,
Batteries and "[or]"smaller crimes, without a
"warrant in writing, expressing the particular cause for
"which such person is committed imprisoned; which warrant or ...
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