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Sheriff courts were given jurisdiction along with the Court of Session in bankruptcy procedure (sequestration) by the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act, 1839 (c.41).

The Workmen's Compensation Act, 1897 (c.37) awarded compensation to employees injured in the course of employment. The system was ended by the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act, 1946 (c.67).

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.

see SC12/6

A court order instructing someone to pay his debt on pain of being 'put to the horn', i.e. publicly denounced as an outlaw and his moveable property forfeited to the Crown.