Acts of the Parliament of Scotland relating to peerage

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The Acts of the Parliament of Scotland relating to peerage are historical statutes that defined and regulated Scottish noble titles, their creation, succession, and legal privileges.


Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf body of legislation
historical legal document
aimedAt clarifying succession rules for Scottish titles
regulating political role of Scottish peers
structuring the Scottish noble hierarchy
appliesTo Scottish peerage
archivedIn National Records of Scotland
concerns feudal dignities in Scotland
hereditary titles in Scotland
nobility of Scotland
country Kingdom of Scotland
defines duties and obligations of Scottish peers
ranks of the Scottish peerage
rights of Scottish peers to sit in Parliament
documentedIn printed editions of the Acts of the Parliament of Scotland
enactedBy Estates of Parliament
surface form: Estates of Parliament of Scotland
field Scottish constitutional law
Scottish legal history
peerage law
historicallyInfluenced law of the Peerage of Scotland after 1707
influencedBy feudal law in Scotland
royal prerogative in Scotland
inForceUntil Acts of Union 1707
jurisdiction Parliament of Scotland
language Latin
Scots
legalForm statute
legalStatus historical law
regulates creation of Scottish peerage titles
inheritance of Scottish noble dignities
legal privileges of Scottish nobles
precedence among Scottish peers
recognition of peerage claims
succession to Scottish peerage titles
relatedTo Acts of Union 1707
House of Lords jurisdiction over Scottish peerage claims
sourceFor modern scholarship on Scottish nobility
subjectMatter creation of lordships and earldoms
entail and limitation of succession in peerages
forfeiture of peerage titles
jurisdiction and privileges of peers
minority and guardianship of peers
restoration of forfeited peerages
timePeriod early modern Scotland
medieval Scotland
usedBy genealogists
legal historians
peerage law specialists

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Court of Session (in peerage matters) appliesLaw Acts of the Parliament of Scotland relating to peerage