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County Buildings is a municipal complex in Wellington Square, Ayr, Scotland which serves as the headquarters and main meeting place of South Ayrshire Council.The original structure, the former sheriff court at the eastern end of the complex, is Category A listed building, [1] while the main office building at the western end of the complex, is a Category B listed building.
The Sheriff of Ayr was historically (from 1221) the royal official responsible for enforcing law and order in Ayr, Scotland and bringing criminals to justice. Sundrum Castle was used by the sheriff from the 14th century, and Loudoun Castle from the 16th century. [citation needed] Prior to 1748 most sheriffdoms were held on a hereditary basis ...
The Sheriffs (Scotland) Act 1747 reduced the office of sheriff principal to a largely ceremonial one, with a sheriff depute or sheriff substitute appointed to each "county, shire or stewartry". [3] The sheriff deputes, who were paid a salary by the Crown, were qualified advocates and took charge of sheriff courts. Where a sheriff depute was ...
The sheriff deputes, who were paid a salary by the Crown, were qualified advocates and took charge of sheriff courts. [2] By the nineteenth century, the office of sheriff principal was an additional title held by the lord lieutenant of the county , and the Circuit Courts (Scotland) Act 1828 ( 9 Geo. 4 .
A sheriff court (Scottish Gaelic: Cùirt an t-Siorraim) is the principal local civil and criminal court in Scotland, with exclusive jurisdiction over all civil cases with a monetary value up to £100,000, and with the jurisdiction to hear any criminal case except treason, murder, and rape, which are in the exclusive jurisdiction of the High Court of Justiciary.
RICHMOND, Ind. — A Wayne County man has been accused of stealing his nephew's $250,000 inheritance. Mark Kenneth Barnhizer, 64, Centerville, was charged last week in Wayne Superior Court 1 with ...
Aug. 2—Daviess Circuit Judge Jay Wethington, who spent 15 years as judge and several years before that as commonwealth's attorney, is retiring at the end of August. Wethington, who was first ...
Plaque on the front of the building. Until the mid-19th century, court hearings were held in the old town house in Linlithgow. [2] After finding this arrangement unsatisfactory, court officials decided to commission a dedicated courthouse: the site they selected, on the south side of the High Street, had been occupied by Archbishop John Hamilton's house in the 16th century.