Portal:Acts of the Pre-Union Parliament of Scotland

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

1424

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

1429

• Lawburrows Act 1429 c.20 (see Lawburrows)

1449

• Leases Act 1449 c.6

1469

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

1474

• Tutors Act 1474 c. 6

1487

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

1491

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

1494

• Education Act 1494 (see also Education in Scotland)

16th century

1532

• College of Justice Act 1532 c.2

1535

• Liferent Caution Act 1535 c.14

1540

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

1555

• Lands Redemption Act 1555 c.3

1560

• Confession of Faith Ratification Act 1560 c.1
• Papal Jurisdiction Act 1560 c.2

1563

• Witchcraft Act 1563

1567

• 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

• Burghs Act 1578 c.11 (see burgh)

1579

• 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

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

1584

• 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

• Curators Act 1585 c.25

1587

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

1592

• 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

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

1597

• 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

1600

• Crown Proceedings Act 1600 c.23

1606

• Sovereignty Act 1606 c.1 (see sovereignty)

1607

• Theft Act 1607 c.6

1617

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

1621

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

1633

• Sovereignty Act 1633 c.3

1661

• 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

• Minority Act 1663 c.4

1669

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

1672

• 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

• 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

• Entail Act 1685 c.26

1686

• Citation Act 1686 c.5

1689

• 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

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

1693

• 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

• 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

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

18th century

1701

• Liberation Act 1701 c. 6

1702

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

1703

• 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

• Act of Security 1704

1705

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

1707

• 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

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