• Scotland, a sheriff-substitute was the historical name for the judges who sit in the local sheriff courts under the direction of the sheriffs principal;...
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    office of sheriff depute should be known as sheriff principal), and that sheriffs-substitute should be known as sheriff, stating: 4 Offices of sheriff principal...
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    appoint a sheriff-substitute who acted in his absence. Over time, the judicial duties of the depute were entirely assumed by the substitute and the depute...
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    official one, given on 3 January 1829 to the sheriff-substitute, the procurator fiscal and the assistant sheriff-clerk. The second was in the form of an interview...
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  • 1760 – 8 July 1847) was a Scottish law agent, agriculturalist and sheriff-substitute of the county of Lanark. He was an authority on all matters bearing...
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    a sheriff-substitute was appointed, who was resident in Kilmarnock. The first hearing took place in November 1847. Initially, the sheriff-substitute had...
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    extension in the late 1990s and continues to be used as a courthouse. A sheriff-substitute, who was resident in Peterhead, was first appointed in 1841. In the...
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    Henry Glassford Bell (category Scottish sheriffs)
    In 1839 he was appointed sheriff-substitute of Lanarkshire, and in 1867 succeeded Sir Archibald Alison to the post of sheriff of the county, an office...
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    Sheriffdom (redirect from Sheriff depute)
    ceremonial one, with a sheriff depute or sheriff substitute appointed to each "county, shire or stewartry". The sheriff deputes, who were paid a salary by the Crown...
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    (1798–1877) and Sophia Margaret (1808–1894), daughter of Andrew Jameson, Sheriff-substitute of Fife. She grew up at Bowerswell, an Italianate-style house near...
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