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2. Those accused of serious criminal offences also routinely had counsel from the sixteenth century, much earlier than was the norm in England. M. Wasser, ‘Defence counsel in early modern Scotland: a study based on the High Court of Justiciary’, Journal of Legal History 26 (2005), 183–201.
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5. W. Reid, ‘The origins of the office of the procurator fiscal in Scotland’, Juridical Review 10 (1965), 154–60. The word fiscal (Spanish) or fiscale (Italian), meaning a public prosecutor, is found in late medieval Europe, suggesting a Roman law derivation.