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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-of-session-act-1988/section-51",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/36",
  "legislation_title": "Court of Session Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-of-session-act-1988",
  "path": "section/51",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "51",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Act unless the context otherwise requires—\n“action” means a cause initiated by a summons;\n“the Court” means the Court of Session and, in any provision conferring a power on the Court with regard to a cause before it, means, as the case may be, a Division of the Inner House, a Division sitting with an additional judge or judges or a Lord Ordinary;\n“enactment” includes an act of sederuntand an enactment comprised in, or in an instrument made under, an Act of the Scottish Parliament;\n“the Inner House” means, in any provision conferring power on it, a Division thereof;\n“the Lord President” means the Lord President of the Court of Session;\n“prescribed” means prescribed by act of sederunt;\n“solicitor” has the same meaning as in section 65(1) of the Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 51 inserted (1.4.2015) by Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 18), s. 138(2), sch. 5 para. 43; S.S.I. 2015/77, art. 2(2)(3), sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1980 c. 46."
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/36/section/51",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:47:52.535668+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."
}