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In a suspension of a sentence of the Justices of Peace, fining some persons for breaking or defacing a grave stone, the Lords found that two Justices made a quorum; it being urged, that by the act 6to Annæ, cap. 6. the powers of the English Justices of Peace are transferred to the Justices of Peace in Scotland; from whence it was inferred, that, as two make a quorum in England, the same must obtain here. A further argument was added from the stile of the commission, bearing duo pluresve, and also from the constant practice of two Justices judging in matters of excise.——See Appendix.
