Justiciary Court
the highest criminal court in Scotland. Its judges are seven of the judges of the Court of edicts against that sect. Hearing of the the bishops who had been banished by the Arians, and published several severe destruction of Antioch by an earthquake, he laid aside the imperial robes, clothed days in fasting and prayer, to avoid Session-viz., the lords president and justice-clerk, and five others appointed by patent. It sits usually in Edinburgh, himself in sackcloth, and passed several but also holds circuit courts twice a year in a number of towns, four times at divine judgment. He rebuilt that city, and other places which were destroyed Perth, Dundee, and Aberdeen, and six times in Glasgow, the kingdom being by the same calamity. He died Aug. 1, 527. being by the same calamity and other places which were destroyed He died Aug. 1 , divided for that purpose into three divipurpose into three divi- 527. sions or circuits. The jurisdiction embraces all crimes whatever; and it is an appellate court as regards inferior criminal tribunals. Its decisions are final, there being no appeal to the House of Lords.