Lexicographical Neighbors of Dittays
Literary usage of Dittays
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Criminal Trials in Scotland: From A.D. MCCCCLXXXVIII to A.D. MDCXXIV by Robert Pitcairn (1833)
"In many instances, the ' Minute Books' alone have been preserved, from which the
proper Record of the Court was usually framed, aided by the ' dittays,' ..."
2. The Records of the Proceedings of the Justiciary Court, Edinburgh, 1661-1678 by Edinburgh (Scotland). Justiciary Court, William George Scott-Moncrieff (1905)
"... to bring the dittays with them to hear and see the same advocate because the
... the dittays after production and reading whereof Mr. ffrancis Hay, ..."
3. Treatise on the Offices of Justice of Peace, Constable, Commissioner of by Gilbert Hutcheson (1806)
"He gives in a bill for fetting him at liberty ; up- on l^'s rea'"onJ tnat tne
judges gave a protection to all who came in for giving up dittays, ..."
4. Arguments, and Decisions, in Remarkable Cases, Before the High Court of by John Maclaurin Dreghorn (1774)
"... or dittays, as they were then called, See Statute- Law abridged, ... taking up
dittays; but indictments proceeded as formerly; and accordingly, ..."
5. The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland, from the by Robert Wodrow (1836)
"... ever quality or station they he, if delated upon oath to the clerks of the
criminal court, in their taking up of dittays in order to ..."
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