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First published 1952 (SND Vol. III). Includes material from the 1976 supplement.
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COLLEGE OF JUSTICE, n.phr. Sc. law: a collective name for the members of “the supreme civil court, [which is] composed of the Lords of Council and Session, and of the members and officers of court” (Sc. 1890 Bell Dict. Law Scot. 195). “The formal title for a member of this group is ‘Senator of the College of Justice'” (Abd.¹⁶).Sc. 1722 W. Forbes Institutes I. iv. 171-3: 
The Court of Session. This Court (called the College of Justice) sits in a House, called the Session-House, consisting of an inner and outer House. . . . The Judges of the Session, stiled Senators of the College of Justice.Sc. 1829 Scott Tales of a Grandfather (2nd Series) III. iii.:
The College of Justice, under which name all the different law-bodies of the capital are comprehended.Sc. 1849–55 Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1855) III. xiii.:
The College of Justice, a great forensic society composed of judges, advocates, writers to the signet, and solicitors, was the stronghold of Toryism.Hdg. 1844 J. Miller Lamp of Lothian II. vi., footnote:
Under the auspices of Andrew Fletcher, Lord Milton (one of the senators of the college of justice), a company was established at Haddington in 1750, for carrying on the woollen manufactory.