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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ...same petition as that for special service. Where a general service is to be limited by a specification, that must be specially mentioned, and the specification duly given. Where proprietors, one or more, having only a personal title, have intervened between the petitioner and the person last infeft, the application is made in the form of petition for a special service. A form for this is provided in the Conveyancing and Land Transfer Act of 1874. (d) The petition is signed by the petitioner, or by his mandatary specially authorised, (c) d) 37 & 38 Vict. c. 94, 10, printed () Act 31 & 32 Vict. c. 101, 29. in Appendix, Part II. Chap. VII. 3. Publication of the Petition.--The petition is published at the Court-house, and at the office for Edictal Citations in Edinburgh. The publication at the Court-house is given by affixing a short abstract of the petition on the doors, or on some conspicuous place in the Court, or in the office of the Sheriff-Clerk, as the Sheriff may direct. The edictal publication is secured by leaving a short abstract of the petition at the office of Edictal Citations at the General Register Office, Edinburgh. (/) Caveats may be lodged with the Sheriff-Clerk by any person desirous of getting special notice; and then the Clerk must post a notice of the presentation of a petition, or of any official intimation of one received by him, to the address given, within twenty-four hours, (g) 4. Proceedings in Services.--No evidence can be taken, or decree pronounced, in the petition till after the elapse of fifteen(/t) days from the date of the latest publication. After that, evidence may be led before the Sheriff himself, or before a provost or bailie of any city, or royal or parliamentary burgh, or...