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Section 5 Interpretation.

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In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the expression . . . . . . F1, the expression “arrestment” shall include arrestment on the dependence, arrestment in security, and arrestment in execution, but shall not include arrestment to found jurisdiction; a law agent shall be deemed to be enrolled in a sheriffdom if his name is on the roll, kept in pursuance of section thirteen of the M1Law Agents (Scotland) Act 1873, of law agents practising in any of the sheriff courts in that sheriffdom.

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Textual amendments

F1

Words repealed by Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1971 (c. 58), Sch. 2 Pt. II

Marginal citations

M1

1873 c. 63.