Sc. Law. [f. JUSTICE sb. 9 + GENERAL a.: cf. Attorney-General.] (Now Lord Justice-General.) The president of the Scotch Court of Justiciary: an office which, having become a sinecure usually held by a nobleman (the actual duties being discharged by the Justice-Clerk), was by 1 Will. IV. c. 69. § 18 merged in that of Lord President of the Court of Session.
c. 1575. Balfour’s Practicks (1754), 565. It is statute and ordanit, that the Justice general sall have … for ilk day of the air, five pundis.
1737. [see JUSTICE-CLERK].
1752. J. Louthian, Form of Process (ed. 2), 3. The Justice-court had then for its Members, the Justice-General, the Justice-Clerk, the Justice-Deputes, the Clerk-Depute, the Dempster, the Officers, and Macers.
1830. Act 1 Will. IV., c. 69 § 18, margin. Office of lord justice general on next vacancy to devolve on lord president.
Hence Justice-Generalship.
1804. G. Rose, Diaries (1860), II. 175. The Justice-Generalship of Scotland.
