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First published 1934 (SND Vol. I). Includes material from the 1976 supplement.
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ADVOCATION, n. Sc. law:

1. “Formerly the method by which cases from an inferior Court were brought before a superior Court, either for further procedure or that the judgment might be reviewed, was known as advocation; but appeal was substituted for advocation by the Court of Session Act, 1868.” (Encycl. of Laws of Scot. ed. Wark and Black, 1926, I. 389.)Sc. 1701 Analecta Sc. (Maidment 1834) I. 48:
For expeding Advocation against the Hamermen of the Cannongate.Sc. 1824 Scott Redgauntlet Letter xiii.:
Ye have omitted to speak a word of the . . . advocation of the Sheriff-Court process.

2. One of the older methods of bringing proceedings of inferior Courts in criminal matters under review; still competent but in practice obsolete. (See Encycl. above cited, I. 422.) (A.C.M.)