Exchequer Court (Scotland) Act 1856

XI Procedure in Cases of Seizure.

Where any Seizure shall be made by any Officer entitled to make such Seizure, where judicial Condemnation thereof shall be requisite in the Court of Session, an Appraisement of the Articles comprehended therein shall be made in the Form, as nearly as may be, of the Schedule D. hereunto annexed ; and such Appraisement shall be lodged in the Office of the Clerk of Court attached to the Lord Ordinary within Thirty Days after such Seizure, and such Appraisement of Seizure shall be included by the said Clerk of Court, and published in the Weekly Calling List of the Court of Session not later than Fourteen Days after being lodged with him as aforesaid; and a Claim for the Articles comprehended in such Seizure, or any of them, in the Form, as nearly as may be, of the Schedule E. hereunto annexed, may be lodged with the said Clerk of Court at any Time within Eight Days from the Date of the Calling of such Appraisement as aforesaid ; and it shall be competent to the Lord Advocate, on the Behalf of Her Majesty, or to the Party claiming such Seizure, to enrol such Appraisement of Seizure in the Weekly Roll of Court of Session Causes at any Time after the Expiration of the said Eight Days ; and at the calling of such Appraisement in the said Weekly Roll, if no Claim to such Seizure shall have been lodged, the Lord Ordinary shall pronounce Decree of Condemnation of such Seizure, and thereupon such Seizure shall belong to and be at the Disposal of the Crown; and if a Claim to such Seizure shall have been lodged as aforesaid, the Lord Ordinary shall pronounce an Order upon the Lord Advocate to lodge an Information of Seizure on the Behalf of Her Majesty; and, upon such Information of Seizure being lodged, the Procedure shall thenceforward be conducted, as nearly as may be, in the like Manner as in ordinary Causes commenced by Subpoena and Information, in Terms of this Act.