Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1952 (SND Vol. III).
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COURT O(F) SESSION, n.phr. The supreme civil court of Scotland, instituted in 1532. The court “formerly consisted of fifteen judges, who sat all in one court. But [later] . . . the judges were required to sit in two Divisions; and . . . their number was reduced to thirteen — the Lord President, the Lord Justice-Clerk, and eleven Ordinary Lords” (Sc. 1890 Bell Dict. Law Scot. 1004).
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