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SC12/35 · Series · 1817-1958
Part of Lerwick Sheriff Court records

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.

Registers of Hornings
SC12/55 · Series · 1685-1914
Part of Lerwick Sheriff Court records

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.