Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1960 (SND Vol. V).
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INTERRUPTION, n. Sc. Law: “the step legally requisite to stop the currency of the period of a prescription” (Sc. 1837 Bell Dict. Law Scot. 527, 1946 A. D. Gibb Legal Terms 44). “To ‘interrupt' the course of prescription, as it is commonly called — diligence must be ‘raised and executed,' or an action ‘commenced,' upon the bill within the sexennium” (Sc. 1931 Green's Encyclopedia XII. 76).Sc. 1722 W. Forbes Institute I. iii. 71–2:
Prescription is excluded by Interruption, which is the Proprietor or Creditor's owning his Right within the time allowed.Sc. 1754 Erskine Principles iii. vii. § 18:
In all interruptions, notice must be given to the possessor of the subject, or the debtor, that the proprietor or creditor intends to sue upon his right.Sc. 1874 Acts 37 & 38 Vict. c. 94 § 34:
Possession following on such recorded title for the space of twenty years continually and together and that peaceably, without any interruption made during the said space.Sc. 1927 Gloag & Henderson Intro. Law Scot. 133:
The effect of interruption is that the prescriptive period must start anew from the date of the interruption.
