Portal:Acts of the Pre-Union Parliament of Scotland
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
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edit1429
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
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edit1535
edit1540
edit- Act of Sederunt 1540 c. 93
- College of Justice Act 1540 c.10
1555
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edit1563
edit1567
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
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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
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edit1606
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
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edit1661
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
edit1669
edit1672
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
edit1689
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
edit18th century
edit1701
edit- Liberation Act 1701 c. 6
1702
edit1703
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
edit1705
edit- Fisheries Act 1705 c. 48
- Act for a Treaty with England 1705 c. 50 (see Act of Union 1707)
1707
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