Administration of Justice (Scotland) Act 1933

40 Interpretation

In this Act unless the context otherwise requires:—

• " The Court " means the Court of Session, and, in any provision conferring a power on the Court with regard to a cause before it, " the Court " includes a reference to a division of the Inner House or to the Lord Ordinary.

• " The Lord President " means the Lord President of the Court of Session.

• The expression " cause " includes any petition, action, case, or proceeding whatsoever competent in the Court.

• The expression " consistorial cause " has the meaning assigned to the expression " consistorial action" by the [24 & 25 Vict. c. 86.] Conjugal Rights (Scotland) Amendment Act, 1861.

• The " Act of 1868 " means the Court of Session Act, 1868.

• The expression " solicitor " has the like meaning as in the Solicitors (Scotland) Act, 1933, provided that for the purpose of the construction of any provision of this Act with reference to any time prior to the first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-four, any reference to a solicitor shall be construed as a reference to a law agent as defined in the [36 & 37 Vict. c. 63.] Law Agents (Scotland) Act, 1873.

• The expression " General Council of Solicitors in Scotland " means the General Council of Solicitors in Scotland constituted under the Solicitors (Scotland) Act, 1933.

• " Prescribed " means prescribed by Act of Sederunt under this Act.