Crown Suits (Scotland) Act 1857
ICrown Suits, &c. may be brought in Name of the Lord Advocate ;
IIWith the Sanction of the Department having the Interest.
IIIPersons prosecuted not entitled to object to the Instance.
IVMeaning of " Public Department ".
VExisting Actions, &c. not to be affected.
VILaws, &c. repealed so as to give Effect to this Act.

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Crown Suits (Scotland) Act 1857

1857 CHAPTER 44

An Act to regulate the Institution of Suits at the Instance of the Crown and the Public Departments in the Courts of Scotland.

WHEREAS Doubts are entertained as to the proper Instance to be employed in the Institution of Actions, Suits, and Proceedings in the Courts of Justice in Scotland on the Behalf of Her Majesty and of Public Departments :

Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as, follows :