SENTENCE OF OUTLAWRY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LI, Issue 9066, 11 April 1906, Page 3

SENTENCE OF OUTLAWRY.

CURIOUS SURVIVAL OF OLD SCOTS LAW.

The sentence oi outlawry which has been pronounced at fch© Glasgow High Court against an absconding solicitor charged with forging » cheque, and a clerk charged in cotaniectdon "with a false pretences conspiracy, is a carious survival of old Scots law. The persons of the accused the sentence

di&clares to be forfeited) in law. Outlaws ' become incapabie of bearing testimony : they can ttteather cue inor defend an action, civil or crimmal j, .they eamnot act on a jury, oor can Afcey be appointed tutor or curator of aaofeher. ■ They, in short, cannot claim any personal benefit whatever from the law. They have lost all the privileges of British subjecte. The sentence of the court is al6O a warran* for the denunciation of the accused as a rebel, the (result of which is that his moveable estate is forfeit to the Crown, and if the outlaw remain for a year and a day in the coaditiion of a rabel the profits of has heritable estate, if he have way, for

has liietime are forfeited. T£i "denuocaation at the Horn" takes

places at the Marke* cross of Edinburgh. Three "Oyesses" a>re proclaimed, the sentence is .read, and three blasts with a horn are g£veji, by. which the outlaw is understood to be proclaimed rebel to hte King. The sentence is then fixed to the Maiketcrosß and thus published. The outlaw can only be reprieved by surrender of has person.