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Excerpt from Digest of House of Lords Cases: Decided on Appeal From Scotland, 1709 to 1864, With Glossary of Scottish Law Terms The want of a complete Digest of the Reports of Scottish Appeal Cases has long been felt by the profession, and in an especial degree by those who have practised at the bar of the House of Lords. Although the several volumes of Shaw's Digest now contain references to the full series of the Scottish appeal reports, of great utility to the possessors of that work, they can scarcely be considered as precluding the advantage of a distinct publication; for the appeal cases are there scattered through four large volumes, in the earlier of which the abstracts were prepared...