Court of Session Act 1850

35 Provision as to one Division of the Court consulting the other.U.K.

It shall be competent to the judges of either division of the court in any cause in which they shall be equally divided in opinion to direct such cause to be judged by the inner house judges of both divisions, and to appoint such cause to be heard by such inner house judges, either on any sederunt day during session, or at any time during the sittings of the Lord Ordinary, either before or after the sittings of the two divisions of the court for the winter session; and such cause shall thereupon be so heard and judged by the judges of the division of the court before which the same depends, with the addition of three judges of the other division of the court; and the judgment shall in all causes be pronounced according to the opinion of the majority of the judges present, and the interlocutor shall bear to be the judgment of the division before which the cause depends, after consulting with the other division of the court; but the Lord Justice General shall always be the presiding judge whenever his lordship sits as a member of the court.