{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-of-session-act-1850/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-of-session-act-1850/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/13-14/36",
  "legislation_title": "Court of Session Act 1850",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-of-session-act-1850",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Dilatory defences in reductions, how to be disposed of.",
  "text": "Where in a process of reduction the defender is to object to the title of the pursuer, or to plead on an exclusive title, or to state any other objection against satisfying the production, he shall in the first instance lodge defences confined to these points, and the form of such defences, and the procedure thereon, shall be the same as in the case of peremptory defences in an ordinary action; and if the defences so lodged shall be repelled, the defender after the production has been satisfied, shall give in defences applicable to the grounds of reduction and upon the merits of the reduction, and a record may be made up thereafter as in any ordinary action.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/13-14/36/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:26:31.471430+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}