Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1968 (SND Vol. VII).
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PRODUCTION, n. Sc. Law usages:
1. As in Eng. Phr. to satisfy production, to produce a document when challenged to do so in a court of law.Sc. 1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. 830:
If he mean to defend the action on its merits, it is not necessary for him to lodge defences at this stage of the cause. On the contrary, he merely returns the summons, which implies that he means to satisfy the production, as it is expressed; i.e. to produce the document called for, and to contest the reasons of reduction.Sc. 1916 J. A. MacLaren Ct. Session Practice 690:
The Lord Ordinary, having heard counsel on the preliminary objections and considered the process, repeats said objections and appoints the defender to satisfy production within — days.
2. An article or document produced as evidence in a court of law, an exhibit (Sc. 1946 A. D. Gibb Legal Terms 69).Sc. 1817 Acts of Adjournal (17 March):
Letters of Exculpation and Productions by the Accused.Sc. 1833 A. Alison Criminal Law II. 592:
It has also become usual now . . . to label all the productions which are to be used in evidence.Sc. 1887 W. G. Dickson Law Evidence II. 992:
A formal production, that is, an article to be used substantively as part of the evidence in the case, being exhibited to the different witnesses and produced in process.Sc. 1962 T. B. Smith Short Commentary 226:
When the evidence for the prosecution has been heard and (where there are productions) examined, evidence is called for the defence.
