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 effect that the persons whose names are contained in the porteous may he at-tached, conform to the dittay contained in the traistls. So called, 'because committed te the traM, [trust,] faith, and credit of the clerks and coroner. Skene; Burrill
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
