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‖ culrach, -reach Sc. Law. Obs.|ˈkʊlreːx|
Also colrach, collerauch, -rayth, -reth, coleraith, culreauch.
[app. f. Ir. and Gael. cul back + reachd law, statute, ordinance.]
A surety given to a court from which a cause is removed to another court, to be escheated if full justice is not rendered in the latter court. Required especially when a cause was removed to the court of a lord of regality.
c1400Quoniam Attach. viii. §4 Demittet ibidem vnum culrach scilicet vnum plegium quod plena lex tenebitur parti in curia domini sui. 1518in Balfour Practicks (1754) 407 (Jam.) Offerand to that effect caution of Collerauch. 1571in Pitcairn Crim. Trials Scot. I. 23 Comperit P.L. Knycht, Stewart within the said Regalitie, and desyrit the sd Mr. Robert to be replegeit from the sd Justice Court as duelland within the samin boundis; and offerit cautioune of Collerayth, as accordis. 1609Skene Reg. Maj. 107 He aught to leaue ane borgh, that is called Culreauch, behinde him in that Court, out of the quhilk the defender is borrowed. 1641Acts Chas. I, V. 627 (Jam.) To give and find cautioun de Collereth for administratioun of justice. 1700in R. Chambers Dom. Ann. Scotl. anno 1700, Demanding surrender of the two Browns, to be tried in the court of his regality, within whose bounds they had lived, and offering a culreach or pledge for them. 1861Ibid. 236 The system of culreach or repledgiation is one of great antiquity in Scotland, but last heard of in the Highlands. |