Portal:Acts of the Pre-Union Parliament of Scotland

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 will be available online soon.

1424

 * Innkeepers Act 1424 c. 25
 * Royal Mines Act 1424 c.13
 * Football Act 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)

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

 * Lands Redemption Act 1555 c.3

1560

 * Confession of Faith Ratification Act 1560 c.1
 * Papal Jurisdiction Act 1560 c.2

1563

 * Witchcraft Act 1563

1567

 * Act Anent the demission of the Crown in favour of our Sovereign Lord, and his Majesty’s Coronation 1567
 * Church Jurisdiction Act 1567 c.12
 * Coronation Oath Act 1567 c.8

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

 * Decrees in Absence Act 1584 c.10
 * Disqualification of Ministers Act 1584 c.6
 * Sovereignty Act 1584 c.2
 * Unlawful Jurisdictions Act 1584 c.4

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)

1600

 * Crown Proceedings Act 1600 c.23

1606

 * Sovereignty Act 1606 c.1 (see sovereignty)

1607

 * Theft Act 1607 c.6

1617

 * Arrestments Act 1617 c.17
 * Executors Act 1617 c.14
 * Registration Act 1617 c.16

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

 * Confession of Faith Ratification Act 1690 c.7
 * Teinds Act 1690 c.63
 * Udal Tenure Act 1690 c.61 (see Udal law)

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

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

 * Act of Security 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)