Traistis
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In old Scotch law. A roll containing the particular dittay taken up upon malefactors, which, with the porteous, is delivered by the justice clerk to the coroner, to the eflfect that the persons whose names are contained in the porteous may be attached, conform to the dittay contained in the traistis. So called because committed to the traist [trust], faith, and credit of the clerks and coroner. Skene de Verb. Sign.