Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1907

Lodging documents founded on or adoptedS

21.1.(1)Subject to any other provision in these Rules, any document founded on by a party, or adopted as incorporated, in his pleadings shall, so far as in his possession or within his control, be lodged in process as a production by him—

(a)when founded on or adopted in an initial writ, at the time of returning the initial writ under rule 9.3;

(b)when founded on or adopted in a minute, defences, counterclaim or answers, at the time of lodging that part of process; and

(c)when founded on or adopted in an adjustment to any pleadings, at the time when such adjustment is intimated to any other party.

(2)Paragraph (1) shall be without prejudice to any power of the sheriff to order the production of any document or grant a commission and diligence for recovery of it.