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Encyclopedia Britannica



WRITERS TO THE SIGNET

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 852 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: WIL-YAK
WRITERS TO THE SIGNET , in
Scotland
 , a society of law agents corresponding to solicitors in England. They were originally clerks in the secretary of state's office and prepared the different writings passing the signet; every
summons
  is still signed on its last page by a writer to the signet. By the Titles to
Land
  Consolidation (
Scotland
 ) Act 1868, they have the exclusive privilege of preparing all crown writs, charters, precepts, &c., from the sovereign or the prince of Scotland. They have no charter but are usually considered a
corporation
  by
long
  custom; they have office-bearers and are members of the College of
Justice
 . On the Act of
Union
  there was much debate as to whether writers to the signet should be eligible to the Scottish bench. It was finally decided that they should be eligible aften ten years' practice. But, with the exception of 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
great
  variety of ,the non-legal uses of brevis or breve. It may mean, inter alia, an annual rent, an amulet, a notice of the death of a monk. Brevetum signified what are now known as ship's papers.


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