actions for payment of money not exceeding F1£5000 in amount (exclusive of interest and expenses);

actions of multiplepoinding, actions of furthcoming F2. . . , where the value of the fundin medio, or the value of the arrested fund or subject, F2. . . as the case may be, does not exceed F3£5000 (exclusive of interest and expenses);

actionsad factum praestandum and actions for the recovery of possession of heritable or moveable property, other than actions in which there is claimed in addition, or as an alternative, to a decreead factum praestandumor for such recovery, as the case may be, a decree for payment of money exceeding F4£5000 in amount (exclusive of interest and expenses);

proceedings which, according to the law and practice existing immediately before the commencement of this Act, might competently be brought in the sheriff’s small debt court or were required to be conducted and disposed of in the summary manner in which proceedings were conducted and disposed of under the Small Debt Acts;