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ACT Concerning Judicial Confessions before the Commissioners of Justiciary . Edinburgh , the eighth of May , 1685.

THE KINGS MAJESTY , and ESTATES OF PARLIAMENT . Do hereby Statute and Declare all Confessions of Parties , after they have received an Indictment in the Case of Treason against the Kings Person , or Government allenarlie , emitted before the Commissioners of Justiciarie sitting in Judgment , and subscribed by the Pannal , or by the saids Judges , in the Case where the Pannal owns the Confession , as it is reduced in Writ , and yet either cannot , or refuses to subscribe , shall be considered as a Judicial Confession : and shall be as probative to Assizes , as if the same had been emitted in presence of the Assize , notwithstanding of the 90th Act of the 11th Parliament of King James the Sixth ; and that if Assizers Assoilyie notwithstanding of such Confessions , They shall be lyable to a Process of Error ; and this Law to be of force only to the next Session of Parliament . And the said 90th Act of the 11th Parliament of King James the Sixth , is to continue in its full force , as to all the rest of its Tenor and Contents .

EDINBURGH , Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson , Printed to His most Sacred Majesty , Anno Dom. 1685.