Showing 31956 results

Court books, registers and processes contain details of cases coming before the court as well as records of administrative matters. Records of criminal cases are in the main series of registers and processes until the end of the 19th century. The collection also contains extensive commissary court material, and registers of juvenile courts set up by the 1908 Children Act (c.67). For more details on Sheriff Court records see http://www.nas.gov.uk/guides/sheriffCourt.asp

Ordinary Causes are the civil proceedings in the sheriff court.