Court of Session Adjournment Act 1762

AN ACT for enabling the Judges of the Court of Session in Scotland to make an Adjournment of the said Court for such Time, betwixt the Twentieth Day of December and the Fifteenth Day of January yearly, as they shall judge most convenient, not exceeding Twenty Days.

WHEREAS by an Act passed in the third year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Second, intituled "An Act for enabling the judges of the Court of Session in Scotland to make an adjournment of the said court," which recites that the continued sittings of the Court of Session in Scotland, from the first day of November to the last day of February yearly, had been found inconvenient and burthensome; for remedy whereof it is thereby enacted, that it shall and may be lawful for the judges of the said Court of Session, and they are thereby impowered to make an adjournment of their sessions, on such day betwixt the fifteenth day of December and the fifteenth day of January yearly, and for such time as they shall judge most convenient, not exceeding ten days: And whereas it has been found by experience that an adjournment of ten days in so long a session is not at all times sufficient for answering the purposes thereby intended, and that the course of business before the said court may often require an adjournment for some time longer, not only for enabling the judges to advise such causes as they cannot overtake during their sittings, but also for enabling the councel more fully and accurately to prepare their causes for the decision of the court, whereby great delays and expence in carrying on business before the said court would be prevented: Be it therefore enacted by the King's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that it shall and may be lawful for the judges of the said Court of Session in Scotland, and they are hereby impowered to make an adjournment of their sessions, on such day betwixt the twentieth day of December and the fifteenth day of January yearly, and for such time as they shall judge expedient, not exceeding the space of twenty days, any law, statute, or usage to the contrary notwithstanding.