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1529 in D. H. Fleming Registrum Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum (1921) II. 64/2 He..failȝeit tharintill, as the adjornale buk proportis.

1564 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 302 Gilbert Erle of Cassillis and..Johnne, Gordoun..ar actit and obleist in the bukis of adjornall..to keip guid rewll in the cuntre.

1666 in W. G. Scott-Moncrieff Rec. Proc. Justiciary Court Edinb. (1905) I. 138 They..to have found caution acted in the Books of Adjournall.

1711 in D. Defoe Pres. State Parties Great Brit. (1712) iv. 190 Sufficient Caution and Surety acted in the Books of Adjournal.

1797 D. Hume Comm. Law Scotl. I. p. lxi The main store from which I have drawn the materials in this treatise, is..the books of adjournal (or records of the Court of Justiciary).

1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian i, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 37 In the State-trials, or in the Books of Adjournal.

1886 Notes & Queries Sept. 210/1 The Journals of the Houses of Parliament and the Adjournals of the Scottish Courts are practically the same thing, viz., a record of the day's proceedings ‘de die in diem’.

1908 Eng. Hist. Rev. 23 409 It is to be regretted that..the author..does not refer to the Privy Council Minutes and the Books of Adjournal in manuscript regarding the trials of Argyll and his associates.

2003 C. Jackson in T. J. Hochstrasser & P. Schröder Early Mod. Nat. Law Theories 133 The Books of Adjournal for the years 1691-1709..are currently undergoing conservation treatment.