Act of Sederunt (Rules of the Court of Session 1994 and Sheriff Court Rules Amendment) (No. 2) (Miscellaneous) 2016
This Act of Sederunt amends the Ordinary Cause Rules 1993 and the Summary Cause Rules 2002 to set out the procedure for applying for an order under section87 (power of sheriff to order sheriff clerk to execute deed relating to heritage) of the Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 (“the 2014 Act”). Section 87 provides that where an action relating to heritable property is before a sheriff or it appears to a sheriff that it is necessary to make an order to implement a decree of a sheriff relating to heritable property, the sheriff may make an order which dispenses with the need for the grantor to execute the deed and directs the sheriff clerk to execute the deed. The effect of execution by the sheriff clerk is that the deed is taken to have the same effect as it would have if it had been executed by the grantor. Actions of this type are normally brought because the grantor (being the person who is under an obligation to execute the deed) of any deed cannot be found or refuses or is unable or otherwise fails to execute the deed.