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The Book of Regulations of 1868 seems to have been the first comprehensive and printed collection of administrative instructions of general application from crown counsel in crown office, as representatives of centralised government, for implementation by procurators fiscal in the sheriff courts. The latter, acting locally, were engaged in the actual investigation of crime within the Scottish system of public prosecution. The comprehensive contents of the book, a benchmark in its own right, established the mode of investigating serious crime and reporting it for consideration for prosecution, and brought up to date a collection of relevant statutory authorities without subsuming or compromising Scottish autonomy in these matters, nor any closer association with comparable institutions in England. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the purpose and origin of the law reform commission of Scotland. It informs that the Scottish law reform commission serves the purpose of drafting or redrafting a civil code, new insolvency law, and other laws. It discusses several functions of the Law Commission under the Law Commissions Act 1965 including law reformation, revising statute law, and codification. The commissions are thought of dealing with private law only but there is no such restriction in the Act.