Society of Solicitors at Law of Edinburgh Act, 1884
WHEREAS previous to the granting of the Royal Charter hereinafter mentioned the members of the Society of Solicitors before the Courts of the Commissary the Sheriff and City of Edinburgh were united for amongst other things promoting a fund for aiding their poor members wives and children whose indigent condition might call for assistance and the members of the said Society enjoyed the exclusive privilege of acting as Solicitors before the said Courts and had raised a fund for the purposes be...