Solicitors in the Supreme Courts of Scotland Act 1871
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1871 c. cvii |
| Year | 1871 |
[34 & 35 VICT.] The Solicitors in the Supreme Courts [Ch. CVii.]
of Scotland Act, 1871.
CHAP. cvii.
An Act for confirming and amending the Charter of, and
A.D.
1871
re-incorporating, the Society of Solicitors in the Supreme
Courts of Scotland; extending and defining its Eights and
Privileges; raising and securing a Fund for the Widows
and Children of Members ; and other purposes. i
[13th July
1871.;
W
HEREAS by a charter under the seal appointed by the
Treaty of Union to be kept and used in Scotland in place of
the Great Seal
thereof,
dated the twenty-fourth day of January one
thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, and sealed the twenty-
third day of [February thereafter, James Bremner and the other
persons therein named, all agents or solicitors before the Court of
Session in Scotland duly admitted and enrolled in terms of the acts
of sederunt of the said court, and all and every other person or
persons admitted and enrolled as agents or solicitors in terms of
the said acts of sederunt who should be admitted members of the
Society, and also all and every person or persons who should there-
after be admitted and enrolled as solicitors before the said court
in terms of and according to the said acts of sederunt of the said
court, were erected and incorporated into a corporation or body
politic by the name and title of "The Society of Solicitors in
" the Court of Session, Commission of Teinds, and High Court of
" Justiciary in Scotland," with perpetual duration and succession,
with powers of administering, directing, regulating, and managing
in all matters and concerns pertaining to the said Society, as also
of acquiring and possessing lands and hereditaments, of suing and
being sued, of having and using a common seal, of making byelaws
and regulations, and for other purposes, as more fully set forth in
the said charter:
And whereas various byelaws and regulations have from time to
time been made by the said Society, in virtue of the powers in
the said charter for regulating the qualification and admission of
entrants, and the management of the affairs of the said Society:
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[Ch.
evil.] The Solicitors in the Supreme Courts [34 & 35 VICT.]
of Scotland Act> 1871.
A.D.
1871.
And whereas, at a general meeting of the said Society, held upon
the twenty-seventh day of January one thousand eight hundred and
unammou widows
Society was a proper and expedient measure ; and at another general
meeting of the Society, held on the second day of June one thousand
hundred and seventeen, it was unani
funds
the fund of the widows5 scheme, and also one half of the entry money
payable by every future member of the Society, and the said sum of
money was paid accordingly, and the one half of the said entry
moneys has hitherto continued to be paid to the said scheme :
And whereas by a contract dated the first, third, and fourth July,
tenth and eleventh November, and fifth December one thousand
eight hundred and seventeen, and registered in the books of council
and session second April one thousand eight hundred and nineteen,
stibscribed by the said James Bremner, Preses, and other members
therein named and designed, of the said Society of Solicitors in the
Supreme Courts of Scotland, a society was constituted, to be called
and known by and under the name of " The Society of Contributors
Supreme Courts of
Widows
" Scotland," and a fund was created for the benefit of the widows of
contributors to the said scheme, and provision was thereby made for
the admission of all members and future entrants to the said Society
or corporation of solicitors who should accede to the said scheme
as contributors thereto, and for the payment of annual rates and
marriage and equalisation taxes as therein specified, and for the
payment of annuities to the widows of the contributors, and for the
election of trustees for the management of the funds and property of
the said scheme:
And whereas the said widows' scheme has been of great benefit
to the widows of the contributors; but only a limited number of the
members of the Society have hitherto been contributors to the
scheme:
And whereas various alterations of the said contract have from
time to time been made by minutes and resolutions of general
meetings of the Society of Contributors to the said scheme, in
pursuance of the provisions of the said contract:
And whereas the annuity now payable from the said scheme to
each of the said widows is forty-two pounds per annum, and it is
calculated that the funds of the said scheme will continue to yield a
like annuity to each of such widows :
And whereas the Society, being of opinion that it would be for
the advantage of the Society and the said scheme, and of the future
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