BILL, in Scots law, has two general significations: Every summary application in writing, by way of petition, to the court of session, is called a bill. But the word more commonly denotes a short obligation or mandate, by which one person obliges himself to pay a sum of money to another, or his order, against a certain time; or by which one person draws upon another for a sum payable to a third person: By this last kind of bill, money-matters are commonly transacted betwixt the inhabitants of different countries, and is called a bill of exchange: When the parties concerned live in Scotland, it is termed an inland bill. As to the solemnities of bills, methods of negotiating them, their le-
gal privileges, &c. See SCOTS LAW, tit. Obligations by word and writ.