Debtors (Scotland) Act 1838

It shall be lawful to insert in summonses raised before the lords of council and sessions concluding for payment of money a warrant (or will) to arrest the moveables, debts, and money belonging or owing to the defender until caution be found, acted in the books of council and session, that the same shall be made forthcoming as accords of law; and it shall be lawful to writers to the signet to subscribe and to the keeper thereof and his deputies to affix the signet to such summonses without any other authority than this Act.

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It shall not be competent to execute any arrestment as in the hands of a person furth of Scotland by service at the market cross of Edinburgh, and pier and shore of Leith; but such arrestment shall be executed by delivery of a schedule of arrestment at the record office of citations in the Court of Session, which delivery shall be made and the schedule registered and published in the same manner as charges are directed to be registered and published by the Court of Session Act 1825.

It shall be competent to the lord ordinary in the Court of Session before whom any summons containing warrant of arrestment shall be enrolled as judge therein, or before whom any action on the dependence whereof letters of arrestment have been executed has been or shall be enrolled as judge therein, and to the lord ordinary on the bills in time of vacation on the application of the debtor or defender by petition duly intimated to the creditor or pursuer, to which answers may be ordered, to recall or to restrict such arrestment, on caution or without caution, and dispose of the question of expences, as shall appear just; provided that his judgment shall be subject to the review of the inner house by a reclaiming note duly lodged within ten days from the date thereof.

It shall be competent for any F7sheriff principal from whose books a warrant of arrestment has been issued, on the petition of the debtor or defender duly intimated to the creditor or pursuer, to recall or to restrict such arrestment, on caution or without caution, as to the F7sheriff principal shall appear just; provided that the F7sheriff principal shall allow answers to be given in to the said petition, and shall proceed with the further disposal of the cause in the same manner as in summary causes, and his judgment shall be subject to review in the Court of Session.

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Extracts, citations, deliverances, schedules, and executions may be either printed or in writing, or partly both, and . . . F9, more than one witness shall not be required for service or execution thereof.