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Part IV.
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Application of Act to Scotland.
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Application to Scotland.
Definitions.
7 Will. 4. & 1 Vict. c. 41.
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14. This Act shall extend to Scotland, with the modifications following; (that is to say,)
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In this Act with respect to Scotland—
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The expression “county court” means the ordinary sheriff court of the county:
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The expression “the court of summary jurisdiction” means the small debt court of the sheriff of the county:
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The expression “sheriff” includes sheriff substitute:
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The expression “instrument of apprenticeship” means indenture:
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The expression “plaintiff” or “complainant” means pursuer or complainer:
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The expression “defendant” includes defender or respondent:
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The expression “the Summary Jurisdiction Act” means the Small Debt (Scotland) Act, 1837, and the Acts amending the same:
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The expression “surety” means cautioner.
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This Act shall be read and construed, as if for the expression “the Lord Chancellor,” wherever it occurs therein, the expression “the Court of Session by Act of sederunt” were substituted.
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All jurisdictions, powers, and authorities necessary for the purposes of this Act are hereby conferred on sheriffs in their ordinary or small debt courts, as the case may be, who shall have full power to make any order on any summons, petition, complaint, or other proceeding under this Act, that any county court or court of summary jurisdiction is empowered to make on any complaint or other proceeding under this Act.
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Any decree or order pronounced or made by a sheriff under this Act shall be enforced in the same manner and under the same conditions in and under which a decree or order pronounced or made by him in his ordinary or small debt court, as the case may be, is enforced.
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