Court of Session Act 1868

91 Questions of Possession or specific Performance may be presented in the Form of a summary Petition.

It shall be lawful for the Court, upon Application by summary Petition, to order the Restoration of Possession of any Real or Personal Property of the Possession of which the Petitioner may have been violently or fraudulently deprived, and also to order the specific Performance of any Statutory Duty under such Conditions and Penalties (including Pine and Imprisonment where consistent with the Statute), in the event of the Order not being implemented, as to the Court shall seem proper; and such Petitions may be presented to any Lord Ordinary, or, in Time of Vacation or Recess, to the Lord Ordinary on the Bills, who shall proceed therein as Justice may require; and any such Petition presented to the Lord Ordinary on the Bills may, after the ordinary Sittings of the Court have commenced, be transferred to One of the Lords Ordinary in the Outer House in manner herein-before provided with respect to Bill Chamber Proceedings.