Summary Jurisdiction (Scotland) Act, 1881
WHEREAS, by an Act passed in the ninth year of King George the Fourth, chapter twenty-nine, intituled An Act to authorise additional Circuit Courts of Justiciary to be held and to facilitate criminal trials in Scotland, provision was made for the summary prosecution of offences before sheriffs of counties in certain cases: And whereas by an Act passed in the Parliament held in the seventh year of King William the Fourth and the first year of Her present Majesty, chapter forty-one, intituled "...