A me vel de me holding, 1181.
Abandonment in marine insurance,
1800.

Able-bodied poor, 1959.
Acceptance of bill, 1556; signature
alone sufficient, ib. ; either general
or qualified, 1557; presentiment
for, 1575; for honour, 1591.-See
Bill.

Acceptance of an offer may consti-

tute a lease, 1308.-See Letting
and Hiring.

Acceptor of bill, liability of, 1585.
Accession, 806.-See Succession.
Accessory character, 797.-See Suc-
cession.

Accident, inevitable, 1450.
Accommodation bills, 1568.
Accountant in Bankruptcy, 1502,
1506.

Accounting, rules of, in partnership,
1660.
Accounts, shop, prescription
1289; current, ib., 1292. See
Prescription.

-

on,

Actions, civil, in Small Debt Courts,
2285; ordinary civil actions, 2293;
criminal actions, 2295.
Acts of Parliament, 4.
Acts of Sederunt, 8.
Adherence, action of, now unneces-
sary, 243.

Adjudication on trust bond, 920;
action of, against apparent heir,

1189.

Administration, right of, 125.
Admiral, Lord High, 2076.
Admiralty, Court of, 2076.
Adultery, 218.

Adventure, joint, 1668.-See Part-
nership.
Advocates, name derived from
France, 2243; called barristers in
England, ib.; can plead in all
courts, 2244; judges chosen from,
ib.; history of profession, 2245;
numbers, 2246; Faculty of, is
presided over by a Dean, 2247;
rules as to admission to body,
2248; fees of admission, 2252;
library of Faculty, 2253.
Advocates-depute, prosecute in Court
of Justiciary, 2100.

Advocate, Lord, prosecutes in Court
of Justiciary, 2100.

Advocation (now appeal), value of
action must be £25 to be com-
petent, 2032; caution in, 1767.
Affidavits before justices, 2171.
Affinity, within what degrees an
impediment to marriage, 43.
Affreightment, 1408.

Age, to what, pupilarity extends,
345; minority, ib.; majority, ib.
-See Guardianship.

Aged persons, when entitled to re-
lief under Poor Law Act, 1950.
Agent, bank, caution for, 1760.
Agent for church, 2234.

Agent and client, 2280; no action of

Bank notes are promissory notes,
1604; not legal tender in Scotland,
1553; exempted from prescrip-
tion, 1619.

Bank agent, caution for, 1760.
Bank, cautioners for a cash credit
account with, 1743.

Banks, joint-stock, 1674; chartered,
1677.

Bankruptcy and insolvency, 1471;
objects of bankrupt law, 1471;
how attained, 1472; provisions
of Bankrupt Act, 1473 et seq.;
sequestration at common law,
1474; statutory sequestration,
1475; effects of, 1476; what con-
currence requisite, 1477; pro-
tection from arrest, ib.; chief
conditions under which sequestra-
tion granted, 1478; effect of
foreign sequestration, ib.; se-
questration not now confined to
persons engaged in trade, 1479;
judicial factor, when appointed,
1480; interim factor, ib.; books,
etc., may be sealed by Sheriff,
1481; sequestration now awarded
by Sheriff, 1482; how opposed,
1483; how recalled, 1484; regular
course of procedure in, 1485;
trustee in, ib.; who may be, 1486;
procedure at election of, 1487-92;
objections, how disposed of, 1493;
security by trustee, 1494-98;
commissioners elected at same
meeting as trustee, 1499; their
duties, 1500; removal of trustee
and commissioners, 1501; account-
ant in bankruptcy, his duties,
1502; trustee must make annual
return to, 1503; not necessary to
assign cause for removal of trustee,
1504; resignation of trustee,
1505; trustee's inventory, 1506;
bankrupt must afford every in-
formation, 1507; examination of
bankrupt, 1508; bankrupt bound
to give information, 1509; allow-
ance to, ib.; of conjunct and
confident persons, 1510; wife may
be examined, 1511; discharge

of

bankrupt on composition, 1512;
discharge of bankrupt without
composition, 1513; notour bank-
ruptcy, 1515; how constituted
under Bankruptcy Act, 1516;
how further constituted, 1518;
how under Debtors Act, 1520;
how constituted in case of a
company, 1521; when it com-
mences, 1522; rules as to obliga-
tions prior to commencement of
statutory period, 1523; ranking,
1524; cessio bonorum, 1525;
jurisdiction in, extended to
Sheriffs, 1526; who may apply
for, 1527; any creditor may
appear, 1528; decree operates
assignation of debtor's moveables,
1529; trustees in cessios now
under accountant of bankruptcy,
1530; discharge of debtor in cessio,
1531; working tools may be re-
tained, 1532; a mere aliment
allowed to half-pay officers and
clergymen, ib.; in what case
creditors may resolve that bank-
rupt shall only obtain decree of
cessio, 1533.

Banns, publication of, 25.-See Mar-
riage.
Bastards, how legitimated, 289;
aliment of, 325, 1970; custody of,
333.

Bequest, power of person to make,
when there are wife and children,

939; of lease by tenant, 1338.
Bills of exchange, inland bills, and
promissory notes, their objects,
1534-5; exempted from formal
authentication, 1536; possess ad-
ditional privileges for transmission
and execution, 1537; bill of ex-
change, its form, 1539; foreign
bill, 1540; form of, 1541; bills or
notes for less than 20s. void,
1542; law now codified by Bills
of Exchange Act, 1543; definition
of bill, 1544; bill must order
nothing but payment of money,
1545; date, 1546; distinction
between inland and foreign bills,

1547; form of inland bill, 1549;
when bills may be treated either
as bill or as promissory note,
1549; drawee must be named in
the bill, 1550; negotiability of
bills, 1551; sum must be payable
in coin, 1552; legal tender, 1553;
how bills are payable, 1554; days
of grace, 1555; acceptance,
1556-7; delivery, 1558; capacity
of parties, 1559; of minors, 1560;
of married women, 1561; of joint-
stock companies and corporations,
1562; liability under bill only
incurred by signing it, 1563;
effect of forged signatures, 1564;
procuration, 1565-66; bill does
not require to be granted for value
in Scotland, 1567; otherwise in
England, ib.;
accommodation
bills, 1568-9; definition of, 1570;
holder in due course, 1571; ne-
gotiation, 1572; indorsement,
1573;
rights and powers of
holder, 1574; presentment for
acceptance, 1575-77; for pay-
ment, 1578; where presentment
dispensed with, 1579; notice of
dishonour, 1580; delay in giving
notice, 1581; protest, 1582;
noting necessary to preserve re-
course in case of inland bill, 1583;
liabilities of parties to a bill, 1584;
of acceptor, 1585; of indorser, ib.;
of any one signing as other than
drawer or acceptor, 1586; order of
liability on a dishonoured bill, 1587;
transfer by delivery, 1588; dis-
charge of bill, 1589; alterations on
bill, 1590; acceptance and payment
for honour, 1591-93; bank cheques
are bills, 1594; banker having
funds of drawer must cash cheque,
1595; crossed cheques, 1596-1602;
promissory notes, 1603; form, ib.;
definition of, 1604; IO U not a
promissory note, ib.; note signed
by two or more obligants implies
in Scotland both joint and several
liability, ib.; may be indorsed,
1605; liabilities of maker of,

1606; non-business days, 1607;
when noting equivalent to
protest, 1608; where notary can-
not be got, 1609; Act does not
affect law of bankruptcy, 1610;
stamps required for bills and
notes, 1611-14; summary dili-
gence, former law of Scotland as
to, preserved, 1615; whether
undated bill will found summary
diligence, 1616; parole evidence
may prove any fact relating to a
bill, 1617; prescription, 1618;
bills and notes prescribe within
six years, ib.; bank notes are
exempted, 1619; not interrupted
by markings of interest or partial
payments, 1620; prescription
does not extinguish the debt,
1621.

Bills of lading, 1429.-See Letting
and Hiring.
Bill Chamber, 2026.
Blench holding, 1166.
Blind persons cannot be witnesses
to a deed, 960.
Board of Education, 1992.
Board of Trade may detain and ex-
amine unseaworthy ships, 756;
may appoint registrars of banking
companies, 1688; and inspectors,
1706; regulates the standards of
weights and measures, 1093.
Bond, personal, 1906; bond, heri-
table, 1914; bond and disposition
in security, 1917; back bond,
1919; bond of presentation,

1764.

Bonded warehouses, 1459 et seq.
Bonorum, cessio, 1525.-See Bank-
ruptcy.

Book, 1839.-See Copyright.
Brieve of Service, 905.-See Succes-
sion.
Broker, 1772.-See Insurance.
Bubble Act, 1671.
Burdens and rights attaching to
heritable property, 1199 et seq. ——
See Property.
Burdens, public, ib.
Burgh Courts, 2151.

Burgh School, 1999 et seq.-See
Education.
Business days, 1607.

Calumny, oath of, its terms, 230.
Capacity of parties to a bill, 1559.
Carriers are middlemen, 1138; their
special liabilities, 1436 et seq.
Cash credit, 1743.

Casualties of superiority, 1169; now
virtually abolished, 1170.
Cattle, servitude of pasturing, 1236;
servitude of watering, 1244; land-
lord's hypothec over, 1362, 1365.
Cautionary obligations, 1718; proper
and improper, distinction between,
abolished by Mercantile Law
Amendment Act, 1719; cautionary
generally gratuitous, 1720; some-
times for premium paid, ib.;
Scotch law adopted in England,
1721; guarantee associations, 1722;
cautionary obligations must be in
writing, 1724; may be dependent
on a condition, 1725; cautioner
entitled to plead every defence com-
petent to principal debtor, 1726;
discussion, 1727; what it imports,
1728; abolished by Mercantile
Law Amendment Act, unless stipu-
lated for, 1729; cautioner entitled
to assignation of debt and dili-
gence, 1730; may take legal mea-
sures for his relief, 1731; has a
lien over any debt he owes to
principal debtor, 1732; co-cau-
tioners, 1733; a co-cautioner seek-
ing relief against the others must
communicate any deduction he
has received, 1734; division, 1735;
discharge of principal debtor is a
discharge of cautioners, 1736;
neglect by the creditor of proper
measures is a defence to cautioner,
1737; cautioner not freed by
creditor merely forbearing to en-
force payment, 1739; but is so if
creditor agrees to give time, ib.;
prescription, 1740; requisites in
order to have benefit of Act, ib.;
notice must be notarial or judicial,

1741; cases to which Act does not
apply, 1742; cautioners for a cash
credit, 1743-49; termination of the
obligation, 1750; cautioners for
agents, 1751; nature and extent
of liability must be disclosed to
cautioner, 1752; presumption is
that it is merely prospective, 1753;
creditor is bound to exercise a cer-
tain vigilance, 1754; not at liberty
to sanction any departure from
terms of contract, ib.; mere neglect,
unless very gross, will not relieve
cautioner, 1755; cautioners for
Government servants, 1757; for
messengers-at-arms, 1758; for bank
agent, 1760; judicial caution, 1761;
judicio sisti, 1762; judicatum
solvi, 1764; caution in a suspen-
sion or advocation, 1765-67; jura-
tory caution, 1768.

Certificate of registration of ship,
1150.

Cessio bonorum, 1525.-See Bank-
ruptcy and Insolvency.

Chancellor of Scotland, office of,
abolished, 2020.

Character of servant, master not
bound to grant, 690.
Chartered banks, 1677.
Charter-party, 1407 et seq.-See Let-
ting and Hiring.

Cheque, bank, 1594; crossed, 1596.
Children, restrictions on the em-
ployment of, 739-40.

Choosing of curators, 444. See
Guardianship.

Church courts, 2204.-See Courts,
Ecclesiastical.

Churches, 1255; rebuilding of, 1256.
Circuit courts, 2109.

Civil debt, imprisonment for, abo-
lished, 1520.

Civil law, its influence on the law of

Scotland traceable to the French
connection, 3; its effects on the
law of marriage, guardianship,
and contracts, ih.
Clandestine marriages, 33.
Clare constat, entry of heir by writ
of, 916.