17 Not competent to appeal after twenty days from date of judgment, &c.U.K.
It shall not be competent to take or sign any note of appeal after the expiration of twenty days from the date of the order, finding, judgment, interlocutor, or decree complained of in any proceedings before the sheriff under this Act, and during such period of twenty days extract shall not be competent; but on the expiration of the foresaid period, if no appeal shall have been taken, the clerk of court may give out the extract.