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A messenger-at-arms is an officer of the Scottish Court of Session, responsible for serving documents and enforcing court orders throughout Scotland. Messengers-at-arms must have a commission as a sheriff officer although, unlike sheriff officers, the jurisdiction of a messenger-at-arms is not limited to the area for which they have a ...
Messengers-at-arms and sheriff officers are employed by private businesses and charge fees that are set by Act of Sederunt. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The jurisdiction of a sheriff officer is limited to the area of their commission (the relevant sheriffdom or Sheriff Court district ), unlike messengers-at-arms (the equivalent officers of the Court of Session ...
The Lord Lyon also has control over messengers-at-arms, judicial officers responsible for serving documents and enforcing legal orders throughout Scotland. [2] [5] The protection of the rights to arms is of signal importance because persons and corporation have paid fees to the Crown in return for exclusive rights to use those armorial bearings.
The Court of Session—more accurately the College of Justice—was established by the Parliament of Scotland under James V in 1532. The Act of Parliament establishing the Court, later named the College of Justice Act 1532, provided that the Court would have "such... rules and statutes as shall please the king's grace to make and give to them" and "ordain[ed] the same to have effect in all ...
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She also chairs the Advisory Council of Messengers-at-Arms and Sheriff Officers. Lady Poole previously worked at the universities of Dundee and Edinburgh as a research assistant and a tutor respectively. Between 2014 and 2024 she served as Chancellor first for the Diocese of Argyll and the Isles, and then for the Diocese of Edinburgh. [5]
Marchmont Herald of Arms is a current Scottish herald of arms of the Court of the Lord Lyon (there are six herald titles but only three heralds at any one time) The office was first mentioned in 1438, and the title is derived from the royal castle of Marchmont, an older name for Roxburgh Castle in the Scottish Borders .
Simon Willard has been chronicled as one of the founders of Old Saybrook, Connecticut.Willard, then a Sergeant, and Lieutenant Edward Gibbons, were sent by John Winthrop (1606–1676) — son of John Winthrop (1587–1649), Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony — to occupy the mouth of what is now the Connecticut River (Long Island Sound) with 20 carpenters and workmen.