[1587/7/37]¹

Act remitting the interpretation of the law of oblivion to the lords of session

²Our sovereign lord and his three estates of parliament, understanding that there are diverse actions and causes of plunder and ejection and others of that nature pursued before the lords of session, against the which it is excepted that the same is committed within the time limited within the act of oblivion and therefore should be remitted to the lords, interpreters thereof, which exception is often and diverse times admitted, through which and in respect that the whole lords, interpreters of the said act (except only Master James Haliburton, tutor of Pitcur, provost of Dundee, and John Erskine of Dun, provost of Montrose), are departed this present life, the said parties are delayed of process, to the great hindrance of justice; therefore, our said sovereign lord, with advice of his highness's three estates of this parliament, statutes and ordains that the lords of council and session shall in all time coming be judges ordinary to the interpretation of the said act of oblivion, and parties complaining to institute, pursue and give in their libels and supplications thereupon to them, and as they determine and decree in the said matters, to be as effectual as if they had first been appointed ordinary judges to the said causes by the aforesaid act of oblivion; providing always there be nine ordinaries of the said lords of session at the giving and pronouncing of each decreet and interlocutor in the aforesaid causes, likewise as they observe in all other matters and actions depending before them.