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The main business of the Commissary Court was the confirmation of testaments, the registration of inventories and settlements and other executry matters. A bond of caution is an obligation by one person to act as security or surety for another.

These volumes contain records of confirmations: powers conferred on the executor of a deceased person's estate to administer it. Prior to 1928 the volumes also contain inventories of property; from 1928 onwards they contain wills.

The main business of the Commissary Court was the confirmation of testaments, the registration of inventories and settlements and other executry matters. These volumes contain inventories of moveable property of deceased Shetlanders, and, less frequently, their wills and testaments.

see SC12/6

Retained in Sheriff Court