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ACT Concerning Judicial Confessions before the Commissioners of Justiciary.

THE KINGS MAJESTY, and ESTATES OF PARLIAMENT. Do hereby Statute and Declare all Confessions of Parties, after they have received an Indictment in the Case of Treason against the Kings Person, or Government allenarlie, emitted before the Com­missioners of Justiciarie sitting in Judgment, and subscribed by the Pannal, or by the saids Judges, in the Case where the Pan­nal owns the Confession, as it is reduced in Writ, and yet ei­ther cannot, or refuses to subscribe, shall be considered as a Judi­cial Confession: and shall be as probative to Assizes, as if the same had been emitted in presence of the Assize, notwithstanding of the 90th Act of the 11th Parliament of King James the Sixth; and that if Assizers Assoilȝie notwithstanding of such Confessions, They shall be lyable to a Process of Error; and this Law to be of force only to the next Session of Parliament. And the said 90th Act of the 11th Par­liament of King James the Sixth, is to continue in its full force, as to all the rest of its Tenor and Contents.

EDINBURGH, Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson, Printed to His most Sacred Majesty, Anno Dom. 1685.

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