1714: 1 George 1 Session 2 c.28: Yule Vacance in Scotland

1714: 1 George 1 Session 2 c.28: An Act for repealing an Act, intituled, An Act for repealing Part of an Act passed in the Parliament of Scotland, intitled, Act for discharging the Yule Vacance.

‘WHEREAS by an Act passed in the tenth Year of her late Majesty Queen Anne, of blessed Memory,

[10 Ann. c. 13.]

intituled, An Act for repealing Part of an Act passed in the Parliament of Scotland, intituled, Act for discharging the Yule Vacance; it was enacted and declared, That the Christmas Vacation of the Session or College of Justice, and all other inferior Courts of Justice in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland, shall yearly, in all Time coming, continue and endure from the twentieth Day of December to the tenth of January, both inclusive: And whereas also the said Vacation has been by Experience found to be a great Interruption to the Course of Business and Administration of Justice, and greatly prejudicial to the Subjects of that Part of Great Britain:’ Be it therefore enacted by the King’s most excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this, present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same,

[The Act 10 Anne c. 13. repealed.]

That the aforesaid Act passed in the tenth Year of her late Majesty Queen Anne, shall be and is hereby repealed and made void.

Source: Ruffhead, Statutes at Large, volume 5.