In all cases which may come before any sheriff substitute under this or the special Act, or any Act incorporated therewith, in which written pleadings shall have been allowed, and a written record shall have been made up, and where the evidence which has been led by the parties shall have been reduced to writing, but in no other case whatever, it shall be competent for any of the parties thereto, within seven days after a final judgment shall have been pronounced by such sheriff substitute, to appeal against the same to the sheriff of the county, by lodging a minute of appeal with the sheriff clerk of such county, or his depute; and the said sheriff shall thereupon review the proceedings of the said sheriff substitute and whole process, and, if he think proper, hear the parties vivâ voce thereon, and pronounce judgment; and such judgment shall in no case be subject to review by suspension . . . F1 or to reduction, on any ground whatever.
Textual Amendments
F1Words repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1892 (c. 19)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Reference to sheriff clerk of a county to be construed as reference to sheriff clerk of sheriff court district: Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 65), Sch. 27 Pt. I para. 1(3)
Textual Amendments
F2Ss. 140, 141, 143, 145, 148, 151 and 152 repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1892 (c. 19)