ADVOCATES, FACULTY OF, the collective term em ployed to designate the members of the bar of Scotland. The faculty has grown out of the Scots act of 1532, which established the College of Justice, or Court of Session, in Scotland. The advocates had, and still have, the sole right of audience in the Court of Session and High Court of Justiciary. By immemorial custom, they have formed themselves into a self-governing faculty under annually elected office-bearers consisting of the dean of faculty and his council, the vice-dean, the treasurer and the clerk. When properly instructed by a law agent an advocate is, under pain of deprivation of office, bound and entitled to plead in any court in Scotland, civil or criminal, superior or inferior. He is also entitled to plead before the House of Lords, the judicial com mittee of the privy council and parliamentary committees. The magnificent library collected by the faculty has now been formed into the National Library of Scotland.