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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriff-courts-scotland-act-1907/schedule-First/paragraph-53.2",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Edw7/7/51",
  "legislation_title": "Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1907",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriff-courts-scotland-act-1907",
  "path": "schedule/First/paragraph/53.2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "53.2",
  "heading": "Parties",
  "text": "(1) The pursuer must call as a defender every person who (so far as known to the pursuer) has an interest in the document to be proved.\n(2) Where only the pursuer has such an interest, the pursuer must call the Lord Advocate as a defender, as representing the public interest.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 Chs. 53, 54 inserted (25.5.2015) by Act of Sederunt (Ordinary Cause Rules Amendment) (Proving the Tenor and Reduction) 2015 (S.S.I. 2015/176), paras. 1(2), 2(3)"
    }
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:21:51.257811+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."
}