Court of Exchequer (Scotland) in the context of "Commissioners of Woods and Forests"

The Proceedings in Courts of Justice Act 1730 (4 Geo. 2 c. 26) was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain which made English (instead of Law French and Latin) the obligatory language for use in the courts of England and in the court of exchequer in Scotland. The act followed a medieval law from 1362 (the Pleading in English Act 1362 (36 Edw. 3 c. 15)), which had made it permissible to debate cases in English, but all written records had continued to be in Latin. The 1730 act was amended shortly later to extend it to the courts in Wales, and to exempt from its provisions the "court of the receipt of his Majesty's exchequer" in England. It never applied to cases heard overseas in the court of admiralty.

A similar act was passed on 22 November 1650 by the Rump Parliament during the Commonwealth of England: An Act for turning the Books of the Law and all Process and Proceedings in Courts of Justice into the English Tongue. As with all purported Acts passed without royal assent during the republican period, it was declared void on the restoration of Charles II.