161 Judgment of Lord Ordinary on the Bills subject to review of Inner House, and judgments in certain cases to be final.U.K.
Any judgment pronounced by the Lord Ordinary in virtue of this Act shall be subject to review by a reclaiming note in ordinary form; and the judgment of either division of the Court upon such reclaiming note, or upon any advocation or appeal, shall be subject to review by appeal to the House of Lords, or in any other competent mode or form; but the judgments of the Lord Ordinary and of the Court respectively, if not so brought under review, and whether the same shall have been pronounced in absence of the respondent or not, shall be final, and not subject to review in any mode or form whatever: Provided always, that the judgments of the Lord Ordinary in petitions relating to the forfeiture or relinquishment of superiority under this or any of the repealed Acts, if not so brought under review, and the judgment of either division of the Court of Session upon a reclaiming note against such judgment of the Lord Ordinary, whether such judgment shall have been pronounced in absence of the respondent or not, shall be final and conclusive, and not subject to review in any mode or form whatever; and it shall be competent to the Lord Ordinary, or to either division of the Court reviewing any judgment of the Lord Ordinary, if it shall appear to him or them to be just in the whole circumstances of the case, to find and decern in ordinary form for the expenses of any proceedings.