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sheriff court
noun
- (in Scotland) a court having jurisdiction to try summarily or on indictment all but the most serious crimes and to deal with most civil actions
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Small′-debts, a phrase current in Scotland to denote debts under 12, recoverable in the Sheriff Court.
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She determined to attend the sheriff-court on Monday morning and ask to be given the custody of Baubie.
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Offences against the game laws are not triable by justices of the peace, but only in the sheriff court.
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It is the county-town; and hither, in 1660, the sheriff-court was removed from Kincardine by Act of Parliament.
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