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WRITERS TO THE SIGNET

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 852 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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WRITERS TO THE SIGNET , in See also:

Scotland, a society of See also:

law agents corresponding to solicitors in See also:

England. They were originally clerks in the secretary of See also:

state's See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office and prepared the different writings passing the signet; every See also:

SUMMONS (Fr. semonce, from semonner or semondre, Lat. summonere, summonitio)

summons is still signed on its last See also:

page by a writer to the signet. By the Titles to See also:

LAND

Land Consolidation (Scotland) See also:

ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

Act 1868, they have the exclusive See also:

PRIVILEGE

privilege of preparing all See also:

CROWN

crown writs, charters, precepts, &c., from the See also:

SOVEREIGN

sovereign or the See also:

prince of Scotland. They have no See also:

CHARTER (Lat. charta, carta, from Gr. Xap-rns, originally for papyrus, material for writing, thence transferred to paper and from this material to the document, in O. Eng. boc, book)

charter but are usually considered a See also:

CORPORATION (from Lat. corporare, to form into a body, corpus, corporis)

corporation by See also:

long See also:

CUSTOM (from O. Fr. costume, costume or coustume; Low Lat. costuma, a shortened form of consuetudo)

custom; they have office-bearers and are members of the See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

College of See also:

JUSTICE (Lat. justitia)

Justice. On the Act of See also:

Union there was much debate as to whether writers to the signet should be eligible to the Scottish See also:

BENCH (an O.E. and Eng. form of a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Bank, Dan. baenk and the Eng. doublet " bank ")

bench. It was finally decided that they should be eligible aften ten years' practice. But, with the exception of See also:

Hamilton of Pencaitland in 1712, no writer to the signet has ever had a seat on the bench. 3 A reference to Du Cange will show the See also:

GREAT

great variety of ,the non-legal uses of brevis or breve. It may mean, inter alia, an See also:

ANNUAL

annual See also:

RENT

rent, an See also:

AMULET (Late Lat. amuletum, origin unknown; falsely connected with the Arab. himdlah, a cord used to suspend a small Koran from the neck)

amulet, a See also:

NOTICE

notice of the See also:

DEATH

death of a See also:

monk. Brevetum signified what are now known as See also:

SHIP

ship's papers.

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