The Bankruptcy and Real Securities (Scotland) Act 1857
WHEREAS Doubts have arisen regarding the Construction of certain Clauses contained in an Act passed in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to Bankruptcy in Scotland, and in another Act of the same Year of Her Majesty, intituled An Act to amend and re-enact certain Provisions of an Act of the Fifty-fourth Year of King George the Third, relating to Judicial Procedure and Securities for Debt in Scotla...