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It was then converted to become the "Spire Inn" in 1817, and operated as a public house for three decades before becoming the home of the Dunfermline Sheriff Court as "County Buildings" in 1850. It remained the main courthouse for the area for over a century, until 1983, when court officials decided to relocate to a modern courthouse in ...
Scotland's supreme criminal court is the High Court of Justiciary. [ 2 ] The Court of Session is the supreme Scottish civil court [ 3 ] but UK-wide courts can review decisions of great public or constitutional importance.
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.
The first usage of the office appears in 1288, as Clerk of the Rolls of the Kings Chapel. [2] In 1291 it was termed "Keeper of the Rolls of the Kingdom of Scotland" [3] After the Wars of Independence, a similar office appeared with the title of "Clerk of the Rolls", which was altered about 1373 to "Clerk of the Rolls and Register", the "register" being the record of charters (i.e.: grants of ...
Court roll for the court of Eustace Grenville in Wotton Underwood, Buckinghamshire, 1432. A manorial roll or court roll is the roll or record kept of the activities of a manorial court, in particular containing entries relating to the rents and holdings, deaths, alienations, and successions of the customary tenants or copyholders. [1]
Dunfermline (/ d ʌ n ˈ f ɜːr m l ɪ n / ⓘ; Scots: Dunfaurlin, Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Phàrlain) is a city, parish, and former royal burgh in Fife, Scotland, 3 miles (5 km) from the northern shore of the Firth of Forth. Dunfermline was the de facto capital of the Kingdom of Scotland between the 11th and 15th centuries. [7]
The Supreme Court is allowing a multibillion-dollar class action investors’ lawsuit to proceed against Facebook parent Meta, stemming from the privacy scandal involving the Cambridge Analytica ...
Dunfermline Burghs was a burgh constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until 1974. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) using the first-past-the-post voting system. From 1918 to 1950 it was also, officially, a district of burghs constituency. There was also a Dunfermline county constituency ...