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First published 1971 (SND Vol. VIII).
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SENATOR, n. Sc. usage in phr. Senator of the College of Justice, the official title of a judge of the Court of Session. See also Justice, n., 1.Sc. 1714 W. Forbes Decisions Pref. iii.:
The Judges of the Session did at first consist of Fourteen ordinary Lords, Half Spiritual and Half Temporal. . . . These Judges are stiled Senators of the College of Justice, or Lords of Council and Session, for that they are vested with the whole Authority and Powers of the Old Session, and daily Council.Sc. 1775 Weekly Mag. (23 Feb.) 288:
Alexander Fraser of Strichen, Esq.; one of the senators of the college of justice, and general of the mint in Scotland.Sc. 1896 Stevenson W. of Hermiston iii.:
You have flung fylement in public on one of the Senators of the College of Justice.Sc. 1958 Intro. Sc. Legal Hist. (Stair Soc.) 343:
From an early date the Judges (except the two heads of the Court) have also been styled “Senators of the College of Justice”, and this style is still employed in the letters patent appointing a Judge.