also known as the Court of Teinds, this was a component of the Court of Session dealing with teinds (Scottish tithes). The Teind Court arose after the Reformation, when a great deal of the property of the medieval church fell into the hands of laymen meaning that the ministers of the reformed church received insufficient financial provision. In 1617 a committee of Parliament called the Commissioners of Teinds was appointed to settle suitable stipends for ministers and after 1707 its powers passed to the judges of the Court of Session who formed the Teind Court, with power to decide on such matters as the valuation and sales of teinds, the augmentation of stipends and the building of new churches, which had the advantage that the authority of the Court of Session could be annexed to their decisions. See also parsonage teinds.

the tenth part of the annual produce of a unit of land, which was payable to the Church, though ‘vicarage teinds’, the lesser teinds due from a parish and paid in kind, were due not by law, but by custom (known as tithes in England). See also Teind Court