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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-of-session-act-1868/section-38",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-of-session-act-1868/section-38.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/31-32/100",
  "legislation_title": "Court of Session Act 1868",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-of-session-act-1868",
  "path": "section/38",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "38",
  "heading": "Special case may be substituted for special verdict.",
  "text": "It shall be lawful to substitute a special case signed by counsel for a special verdict, and thereupon to discharge the order for trial, or the jury, if one has been empannelled, without returning a verdict; and such special case shall have the like force and effect as a special verdict.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 15–44 repealed (S.) by Court of Session Act 1988 (c. 36, SIF 36:1), s. 52(2), Sch. 2 Pt. I (and re-enacted in part as referred to in Sch. 2 Pt. II of that Act)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/31-32/100/section/38",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:57:26.915642+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."
}