Section 53 Definition of final judgment in the Outer House.C1

It shall be held that the whole cause has been decided in the Outer House when an interlocutor has been pronounced by the Lord Ordinary, 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 upon all the questions of law or fact raised in the cause; but it shall not prevent a cause from being held as so decided that expenses, if found due, have not been taxed, modified, or decerned for; and for the purpose of determining the competency of appeals to the Court of Session, this provision shall be applicable to the causes in the sheriff and other inferior courts, the name of the F1sheriff principal or other inferior judge or court being read instead of the words “the Lord Ordinary,” and the name of the sheriff court or other inferior court being read instead of the words “Outer House.”