The Practice of the Sheriff Courts of Scotland in Civil Causes

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Bell & Bradfute, 1875 - 812 pages

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Page 539 - ... shall extend to a body politic, corporate or collegiate, as well as an individual; and every word importing the singular number only shall extend and be applied to several persons or things as well as one person or thing; and every word importing the plural number shall extend and be applied to one person or thing as well as several persons or things; and every word importing the masculine gender only shall extend and be applied to a female as well as a male...
Page 631 - An Act for the Amendment and better Administration of the Laws relating to the Relief of the Poor in Scotland...
Page 731 - If any person called as a witness, or required or desiring to make an affidavit or deposition, shall refuse or be unwilling from alleged conscientious motives to be sworn, it shall be lawful for the court or judge or other presiding officer, or person qualified to take affidavits or depositions...
Page 625 - Summary Jurisdiction Acts" means as follows : As to England, the Act of the session of the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter forty-three, intituled "An Act to facilitate the performance of the duties of justices of the peace out of sessions within England and Wales with respect to summary convictions and orders...
Page 728 - By f 2, on the trial of any issue joined, or of any matter or question, or on any inquiry arising in any suit, action, or other proceeding in any court of justice, or before any person having by law, or by consent of parties, authority to hear, receive and examine evidence...
Page 626 - As respects any city, town, liberty, borough, place, or district for which a stipendiary magistrate is for the time being acting, such stipendiary magistrate sitting at a police court or other place appointed in that behalf ; and (4.) Elsewhere, any justice or justices of the peace...
Page 641 - Specification shall be in the Form, or as nearly as may be in the Form...
Page 689 - Secretary's final determinations under section 205; except that the determination of the Secretary after such hearing as to any fact shall be final and conclusive and not subject to review by any court.
Page 704 - Parliament granting or relating to stamp-duties on probates and letters of administration in England and Ireland respectively; and the affidavit required by law to be made on applying for probate or letters of administration in England or Ireland as to the value of the estate and effects of the deceased ; and also where the commissary shall in manner aforesaid find that the deceased was domiciled in Scotland, the inventory required...
Page 732 - The parties to any proceeding instituted in consequence of adultery, and the husbands and wives of such parties, shall be competent to give evidence in such proceeding...

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