Portal:Acts of the Pre-Union Parliament of Scotland

An index of Acts of Parliament of the Parliament of Scotland. It lists the Acts of Parliament of the old Parliament of Scotland, that was merged with the old Parliament of England to form the Parliament of Great Britain, by the Act of Union (1707).

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 is available online at Records of the Parliaments of Scotland website.

15th century

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

1560

1563

  • Witchcraft Act 1563

1567

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

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

1606

1607

  • Theft Act 1607 c.6

1617

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

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

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)