Exchequer Court (Scotland) Act 1856
Exchequer Court (Scotland) Act 1856 (1856 c. 56)
- Exchequer Court (Scotland) Act 1856 (1856 c. 56)
- 1 The Court of Session to be the Court of Exchequer in Scotland.
- 2 One of the Lords Ordinary in the Court of Session to be Lord Ordinary in Exchequer causes.
- 3 Lord Ordinary in Exchequer causes may act in vacation as well as during session; and in his absence any other Lord Ordinary may act in his room.
- 4 Clerks to the Lord Ordinary in Exchequer causes to be clerks in such causes.
- 5—9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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- 11, 12. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
- 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
- 14 Procedure in lieu of injunction.
- 15 Procedure in lieu of mandamus.
- 16 Procedure on affidavit of danger.
- 17 Procedure in lieu of writs of habeas and certiorari.
- 18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
- 19 Duties of Court of Exchequer in appointment of tutors dative to be performed by Inner House of Session.
- 20 Interlocutors in Exchequer causes may be reclaimed against, and appealed, as if pronounced in ordinary Court of Session causes.
- 21 Suspension, where competent, to be by note in the Bill Chamber in common form; and when note passed case to depend before Lord Ordinary in Exchequer causes.
- 22 The Lord Advocate to sue and be sued on behalf of Her Majesty.
- 23 Privilege of audience preserved to the Crown.
- 24 Costs may be given for and against the Crown.
- 25 Exchequer causes to have precedence of all others.
- 26 Sittings of the Court of Session to be held to correspond with existing Exchequer terms.
- 27 Certified copies of interlocutors, equivalent to extracts, except in order to diligence.
- 28 Minute book dispensed with as to extracts of Exchequer decrees; such extracts to have priority in the extractor’s office; and such extracts, and also extracts of registered bond to Her Majesty, to be in ordinary form; except that warrant to charge to be in form scheduled.
- 29—34. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
- 35 †Sheriff may seize books of crown debtor under extract decree.
- 36 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
- 37 †Bonds, &c. heretofore taken by Court of Exchequer may be taken by sheriffs, &c.
- 38 Bonds to Her Majesty to be held as containing a clause of registration.
- 39 Where a bond to Her Majesty is not for a specific sum, sum may be supplied by an account stated and certified, on which diligence may proceed.
- 40 Provision for recovering in Scotland duties accruing in other parts of the United Kingdom.
- 41 Jurisdiction of sheriffs and justices in Exchequer cases saved.
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- 46 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
- 47 Interpretation of certain terms.
- 48, 49. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
- schedules referred to in the foregoing act
- SCHEDULE F Note of Appeal
- SCHEDULE G . . .
- SCHEDULE H . . .
- SCHEDULE I . . .
- SCHEDULE K . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
- SCHEDULE L Execution of Seizure of Books and Papers of Crown Debtor
- SCHEDULE M Certificate of Officer of Revenue to stated Account
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