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An index of Acts of Parliament of the Parliament of Scotland. It lists the Acts of Parliament of the old Parliament of Scotland, that was merged with the old Parliament of England to form the Parliament of Great Britain, by the Act of Union (1707).

The numbers after the titles of the acts are the chapter numbers. Acts are referenced using 'Year of reign', 'Monarch', c., 'Chapter number' — e.g. 16 Charles II c. 2 — to define a chapter of the appropriate statute book.

This list is only a partial catalogue of acts that remained on the statute books even after the Union of 1707. For a largely comprehensive edition of Scottish Acts of Parliament see Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland, ed. Thomas Thomson. A new edition is currently being edited by the Scottish Parliament Project at the University of St Andrews and will be available online soon.

15th century edit

1424 edit

Innkeepers Act 1424 c. 25
Royal Mines Act 1424 c.13
Football Act 1424

1429 edit

Lawburrows Act 1429 c.20 (see Lawburrows)

1449 edit

Leases Act 1449 c.6

1469 edit

Diligence Act 1469 c.12
Reversion Act 1469 c.3

1474 edit

Tutors Act 1474 c. 6

1487 edit

Royal Burghs Act 1487 c.17 (see royal burghs)

1491 edit

Common Good Act 1491 c.19
Leases Act 1491 c.7
Liferent Caution Act 1491 c.6

1494 edit

Education Act 1494 (see also Education in Scotland)

16th century edit

1532 edit

College of Justice Act 1532 c.2

1535 edit

Liferent Caution Act 1535 c.14

1540 edit

Act of Sederunt 1540 c. 93
College of Justice Act 1540 c.10

1555 edit

Lands Redemption Act 1555 c.3

1560 edit

1563 edit

Witchcraft Act 1563

1567 edit

Act Anent the demission of the Crown in favour of our Sovereign Lord, and his Majesty’s Coronation 1567
Church Jurisdiction Act 1567 c.12
Coronation Oath Act 1567 c.8

1578 edit

Burghs Act 1578 c.11 (see burgh)

1579 edit

Church Act 1579 c.6
Church Jurisdiction Act 1579 c.7
Criminal Letters Act 1579 c.16
Sunday Act 1579 c. 8
Act for Punishment of Strong and Idle Beggars, and Relief of the Poor and Impotent

1581 edit

Breach of Arrestment Act 1581 c.23
Lawburrows Act 1581 c.22

1584 edit

Decrees in Absence Act 1584 c.10
Disqualification of Ministers Act 1584 c.6
Sovereignty Act 1584 c.2
Unlawful Jurisdictions Act 1584 c.4

1585 edit

Curators Act 1585 c.25

1587 edit

Burghs Act 1587 c.114
Tolls Act 1587 c.37

1592 edit

Citation Act 1592 c.59
Compensation Act 1592 c.61
Deforcement Act 1592 c.72
Expenses Act 1592 c.62
General Assembly Act 1592 c.8 (see General Assembly of the Church of Scotland)
Lyon King of Arms Act 1592 c.29 (see Lyon King of Arms)
Mines and Metals Act 1592 c.31

1594 edit

Declinature Act 1594 c. 22
Ejection Caution Act 1594 c.27
Land Purchase Act 1594 c.26
Parricide Act 1594 c.30

1597 edit

Feu-duty Act 1597 c.17 (see feu duty)
Kirk Dykes Act 1597 c.3 (see kirk, dyke)
Lawburrows Act 1597 c.40 (see Lawburrows)

17th century edit

1600 edit

Crown Proceedings Act 1600 c.23

1606 edit

Sovereignty Act 1606 c.1 (see sovereignty)

1607 edit

Theft Act 1607 c.6

1617 edit

Arrestments Act 1617 c.17
Executors Act 1617 c.14
Registration Act 1617 c.16

1621 edit

Adjudication Act 1621 c.7
Bankruptcy Act 1621
Diligence Act 1621 c.6

1633 edit

Sovereignty Act 1633 c.3

1661 edit

Arrestments Act 1661 c.283
Bonds Act 1661 c.244
Crown Appointments Act 1661 c.6
Diligence Act 1661 c.344
March Dykes Act 1661 c.284
Parliament Act 1661 c.7
Precedence Act 1661 c.211
Prerogative Act 1661 c.13
Redemptions Act 1661 c.247
Registration Act 1661 c.243
Sunday Act 1661 c. 281

1663 edit

Minority Act 1663 c.4

1669 edit

Lyon King of Arms Act 1669 c.95
March Dykes Act 1669 c.38

1672 edit

Adjudication Act 1672 c.45
Ann Act 1672 c.24
Courts Act 1672 c.40
Lyon King of Arms Act 1672 c.47
Summons Execution Act 1672 c. 6
Tutors and Curators Act 1672 c. 2
Writs Act 1672 c.16

1681 edit

Act against Assassinations c. 81
Bills of Exchange Act 1681 c.86
Declinature Act 1681 c.79
Oaths of Minors Act 1681 c. 85
Registration Act 1681

1685 edit

Entail Act 1685 c.26

1686 edit

Citation Act 1686 c.5

1689 edit

Act declaring the Meeting of the Estates to be a Parliament c. 1
Claim of Right Act 1689 c.28
Prelacy Act 1689 c.4

1690 edit

Confession of Faith Ratification Act 1690 c.7
Teinds Act 1690 c.63
Udal Tenure Act 1690 c.61 (see Udal law)

1693 edit

Court of Session Act 1693 c.42 (see Court of Session)
Ministers Act 1693 c.38
Real Rights Act 1693 c.22
Register of Sasines Act 1693 c.23 (see sasine)
Registration Act 1693 c.24

1695 edit

Confirmation Act 1695 c.72
Division of Commonties Act 1695 c.69
Runrig Lands Act 1695 c.36 (see run rig)
Act for erecting a Bank in Scotland (see Bank of Scotland)
Company of Scotland Act (see Company of Scotland)

1696 edit

Inland Bills Act 1696 c.38
Registration Act 1696 c.41
Tutors and Curators Act 1696 c. 8

18th century edit

1701 edit

Liberation Act 1701 c. 6

1702 edit

Act Declaring the present meeting of Parliament to be a lawfull and free Parliament c. 4

1703 edit

Act Anent Peace and War
Act Ratifieing the turning of the Meeting of the Estates in the year 1689, into a Parliament c. 3
Wine Act

1704 edit

Act of Security 1704

1705 edit

Fisheries Act 1705 c. 48
Act for a Treaty with England 1705 c. 50 (see Act of Union 1707)

1707 edit

Election Act 1707 c.8
Protestant Religion and Presbyterian Church Act 1707 c.6
Union with England Act 1707 c.7 (see Acts of Union 1707)

External links edit

Scottish Parliament Project - Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707