Scottish Law Review and Sheriff Court Reports (V. 11)

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438

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640 g

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 'TIS FORTY YEARS SINCE: SOME LEGAL REMINISCENCES. I. It is now close on forty years since the present writer first entered within the precincts of the Parliament House, and mingled among the busy crowd that then, as now, perambulated the floor of this old historic hall. Very few, indeed, of the many notable personages then on the "boards" are now in life, the ranks of the bench, for instance, having been changed and recruited by new judges at least thrice during the intervening years, while, of the permanent officials I then found on duty in the Courts, only five or six are still to the fore. The great hall itself has undergone little change during the past four decades, any alterations being on the side of embellishment, notably the substitution of the beautiful and artistic south window for the old " smoky looking " one which used to be there, and which contained the large figure of Justice holding up the scales. The desks at the sides have been taken away, and the "sentry box" or "pulpit" at the north end has long since been removed. This was the "coign of vantage" from which Donald Stewart, the old Highland crier of court so long looked down on the busy crowd, and " cried out" the names of agents or counsel who were urgently wanted by their clients. At intervals, during these four decades, it has been greatly enriched by the numerous portraits and busts of eminent Scottish lawyers and statesmen placed therein, while the mural decoration has besn artistically cared for, so that this noble and historic interior is now a most fitting home for the sittings of the Supreme Court of Scotland, and is second to none in the three kingdoms. Forty years ago the Court of Session was, as it is now, divided into two appellate sections or divisions, with the Outer House as a court o...

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