a junction, coalition, or assemblage of two or more different things in one.

UNION OF LANDS, in Scots law. See Law, Tit x. 20.

or the Union, by way of eminence, is more particularly used to express the act whereby the two separate kingdoms of England and Scotland were incorporated into one, under the title of The kingdom of Great-Britain. This happy union, in vain attempted by king James I., was at length effected in the year 1707, by the general consent of the queen and the estates of each realm. The chief articles of this union are, That the two kingdoms shall be united into one kingdom, by the name of Great-Britain: that they, in consequence thereof, be represented by one parliament, of which sixteen peers and forty-five commoners are to be elected for Scotland, and have the same privileges with those of England: that the subjects of either nation shall have equal freedom of trade, and be liable to the same custom, and the like laws for public government, &c. The kirk or church of Scotland is confirmed; and the courts of justice are to remain the same as they were before the union, yet subject to regulation, &c. A court of exchequer is also erected in Scotland, to be a court of record, revenue, and judicature, for ever; and barons of the said court are appointed, who shall be the judges there.