AHC: the Scots legal system in use in North America

Here you go: how would it be possible to have elements of the Scots legal system--in particular, the unique third ("not proven") verdict--incorporated into the legal systems of both the US and Canada? Guessing it would require a POD during the late 17th/early 18th centuries (perhaps starting with the founding of Georgia, which initially was significantly Scots, or the acquisition of Nova Scotia and the subsequent arrival of significant numbers of Scots?) but the choice is left up to the individual.

From a legal layman's view, it seems like this might help unclog court backlongs. The "not guilty but don't do it again" :D verdict (as it's often described in Scotland as I hear it) would seem to mitigate hung juries, for starters.
 
Well, Quebec is probably the easiest area for this to happen, largely by integrating the Coutume de Paris. In fact, when translating the Civil Code of Lower Canada into English back in the 19th century, the English translation was largely based on Scots law. So there would be an opening for integration of Scots law and the Scots legal system into a largely pre-Revolutionary French legal code.
 
Here you go: how would it be possible to have elements of the Scots legal system--in particular, the unique third ("not proven") verdict--incorporated into the legal systems of both the US and Canada? Guessing it would require a POD during the late 17th/early 18th centuries (perhaps starting with the founding of Georgia, which initially was significantly Scots, or the acquisition of Nova Scotia and the subsequent arrival of significant numbers of Scots?) but the choice is left up to the individual.

From a legal layman's view, it seems like this might help unclog court backlongs. The "not guilty but don't do it again" :D verdict (as it's often described in Scotland as I hear it) would seem to mitigate hung juries, for starters.

It is a neat idea and not one I've seen as a POD, but it does seem a bit unlikely so long as Scotland is part of Britain/UK. It doesn't seem particularly common that part of an empire will take the legal system of the weaker party to the union (I'm thinking Spain here).
 
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