Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1876
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3 Interpretation of terms.
In this Act, unless when there is something in the sense or context repugnant to that construction, the following terms have the meanings herein-after assigned to them; that is to say, “Action” includes every civil proceeding competent in the ordinary sheriff court: “Person” includes company, corporation, and firm: “Sheriff” includes sheriff substitute: “Sheriff clerk” includes sheriff clerk depute, and in Part VIII. of this Act means commissary clerk, in those cases in which such office is not abolished: “Agent” means a law agent enrolled in terms of the Law Agents (Scotland) Act 1873: “Final judgment” means a judgment or interlocutor which, either by itself or taken along with a previous interlocutor or interlocutors, disposes of the whole subject-matter of the cause, or of the competition between the parties in a process of competition, although judgment shall not have been pronounced on all the questions of law or fact raised therein, and although expenses, if found due, have not been taxed, modified, or decerned for.
3 Interpretation of terms.
In this Act, unless when there is something in the sense or context repugnant to that construction, the following terms have the meanings herein-after assigned to them; that is to say, “Action” includes every civil proceeding competent in the ordinary sheriff court: “Person” includes company, corporation, and firm: “Sheriff” includes sheriff substitute: “Sheriff clerk” includes sheriff clerk depute, and in Part VIII. of this Act means commissary clerk, in those cases in which such office is not abolished: “Agent” means a law agent enrolled in terms of the Law Agents (Scotland) Act 1873: “Final judgment” means a judgment or interlocutor which, either by itself or taken along with a previous interlocutor or interlocutors, disposes of the whole subject-matter of the cause, or of the competition between the parties in a process of competition, although judgment shall not have been pronounced on all the questions of law or fact raised therein, and although expenses, if found due, have not been taxed, modified, or decerned for.
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