Court of Session Act 1868

20 Amendment of Summonses and Pleadings in undefended Causes.

In undefended Actions any Error or Defect in any Summons or other Pleading, whereby the Action is commenced in the Court of Session, may be amended upon Application to the Lord Ordinary or the Court before whom it depends, if the Lord Ordinary or the Court think such Amendment should be allowed; and such Amendment shall be made in "Writing either upon the Summons or Pleading, or in a separate Paper, and shall be authenticated by the Signature of Counsel; and the Lord Ordinary or Court may, if he or they think fit, order the amended Summons or other Pleading to be served upon the absent Defender or Defenders, with Liberty to him or them to enter Appearance within such Time as shall seem proper: Provided that the Expenses occasioned by such Amendment shall not be chargeable against the Defender or Defenders ; and provided also, that such Amendment shall not have the Effect of validating Diligence used on the Dependence of the Action so as to prejudice the Bights of Creditors of the Defender interested in defeating such Diligence, but shall be operative to the Effect of obviating any Objections to such Diligence when stated by the Defender himself, or by any Person representing him by a Title, or in right of a Debt contracted by him subsequent to the using of such Diligence.