Acts of sederunt of the Lords of the session, past since February 1681

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Acts of sederunt of the Lords of the session, past since February 1681
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Scotland. Court of Session.
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Edinburgh :: printed by the heir of Andrew Anderson, printer to Their most Excellent Majesties,
anno Dom. 1691.
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ACT Concerning the Order of the Lords going to the Side-bar, and Reporting of Causes. November 4. 1686.

THE Lords of Council and Session, for avoiding Confusion at the Side-bar, do Ordain, that only two Lords in one day, (beside the Ordinary on the Bills) shall go to the Side-bar to call Process, and One of them only at one time, and that in the Order following, viz. First, these Two, who were Ordinaries in the Utter-house, the two weeks im∣mediatly preceeding, and the next day, these two, who were immediat∣ly before them, and so forth the rest of the Lords, and that there be no exchange of days among the Lords. And the Clerks are discharged to writ any Minuts, in any Process called at the Side-bar, con∣trair

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to the Order and Regulation above-mentioned, upon pain of Depri∣vation; And likewise, that the Lord, who was Ordinary in the Utter-house, the immediat preceeding week, and no other, without his allow∣ance, may go out to the Bench, in the Utter-house, and from nine a∣clock, untill the Ordinary come out, call any Process, wherein he had formerly pronunced Act, Decreet, Protestation, or Interlocutor; and upon Application of any of the Parties, shall find Cause to hear the same again; Providing always the Party apply within the space of a week, after the pronuncing of the Act, Decreet, Protestation or Interlocutor, after which time, the Lords discharges the Calling or Hearing of the same, either upon the Bench, or at the Side-bar, but leaves the Parties to seek re∣meid by Suspension, or Reduction, as Accords. And to the effect the Parties, and their Procurators may know the particular days of the respective Or∣dinaries weekly, they Ordain the Keeper of the Rolls, for the Utter-house, to affix upon the Wall each Munday weekly, the particular days, and Names of such Lords as are to be Ordinaries, at the Side-bar, the week following. And the Lords discharges the Clerks in the Inner-house to read any Petitions, in relation to any Interlocutors pronunced in the Utter-house, except the Petition bear, that the Party had Applyed to the Ordinary, whom he shall name, and that he had refused to give them the Lords Answer, upon an amaund, conform to the late Act of Parliament, Anent the Regulations; and the Lords Ordain, that in time coming, only two Lords in one day Report Causes, and that they do the same, as they stand in Order, in the Squadrons. And that the Keeper of the Roll, for the Utter-house affix upon the Wall, each Munday, the Names of the Lords, who are to Report Causes that week, and the particular days where∣on they are to Report, and Ordain, that the Informations to be given to the Lords shall mention on the back thereof, by what Lord the Cause is to be Reported.

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