The Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1875
WHEREAS by section one hundred and twenty-two of the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act, 1856, it is enacted that "the wages of workmen and of clerks and shopmen and servants employed by the bankrupt, where such wages do not exceed sixty pounds per annum, shall be entitled to the same privilege as the wages of domestic servants to the extent of month's wages prior to the date of sequestration being awarded, or where sequestration is not awarded, prior to the concourse of diligence for distribution of ...