{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/exchequer-court-scotland-act-1856/section-47",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/19-20/56",
  "legislation_title": "Exchequer Court (Scotland) Act 1856",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/exchequer-court-scotland-act-1856",
  "path": "section/47",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "47",
  "heading": "Interpretation of certain terms.",
  "text": "In construing this Act the following words and expressions shall receive the meaning after assigned to them: The expression “Lord Ordinary” shall mean the Lord Ordinary in Exchequer causes to be appointed under this Act; the word “cause” shall comprehend action, suit, prosecution, process, and proceeding; the word “person” shall comprehend tribunal, and public and private company, and corporate and public and other body, as well as the individual members of such tribunal, company, or body; the word “decree” shall comprehend act, order, warrant, interlocutor, and judgment; the expression “rentcharge” shall comprehend debt, rent, and duty; and the word “penalty” shall comprehend fine and forfeiture.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/19-20/56/section/47",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:17:24.646157+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."
}