"Regiam Majestatem" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL

Lat. In the clvll law. To drive awny. Applied to those who drove nway animals with the intention of stealing …

Scotland; esp. the Highlands of Scotland.

Au impost levied an-nually in Scotland for the maintenance of the ministers of religion

In Scotch law. To approve and reject; to take advantage of one part, and reject the rest Bell. Equity suffers …

In Scotch law. Jurors; the persons who formed that kind of court which in Scotland was called an “assise,” for …

In the practice of the criminal courts of Scotland, the fifteen men who de-dde on the conviction or. acquittal of …

One of a superior breed of cattle from Ayrshire, Scotland. Ayrshires are notable for the quantity and quality of their …

A musical wind instrument, now used chiefly in the Highlands of Scotland.

An officer in Scotland, whose office formerly corresponded to that of sheriff, but now corresponds to that of an English …

A kind of cake or bread, in shape flat and roundish, commonly made of oatmeal or barley meal and baked …

In Ireland, a territorial division, corresponding nearly to the English hundred, and supposed to have been originally the district of …

A festival of the heathen Celts on the first day of May, in the observance of which great bonfires were …

A certain rate of money, corn, cattle, or other thing, anciently paid, in the north of England and south of …

1. In one of its ortgi-nal meanings, this term denoted a tribute paid by English dwellers, along the Scottlsh border …

An ancient ten-ure of the law of Scotland, the duty payable being trifling, as a penny or a pepper-corn, etc., …

One of a class of paupers or pensioners, or licensed beggars, in Scotland, to whim annually on the king's birthday …

A soft, elastic, very durable cap, made of thick, seamless woolen stuff, and worn by men in Scotland.

An instrument of torture for the leg, formerly used to extort confessions, particularly in Scotland.

A process grant-ed by a Judge ordinary, on either side of the border between England and Scotland, for arresting the …

In England, an incorporated town that is not a city; also, a town that sends members to parliament; in Scotland, …