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INDUCIAE, n.pl. The period of time granted to a person between a citation to appear in a court of law and the date fixed for the hearing (Sc. 1946 A. D. Gibb Legal Terms 42). [ɪn′dj uʃie]Sc. 1735 H. Home Decisions (1757) 12:
In all decreets as well those of baron-courts as others there ought to intervene fifteen days betwixt the pronouncing the decreet and the execution thereof. No good reason can be given why tenants should not have the legal induciae, which is competent to the rest of the subjects.Sc. 1752 J. Louthian Form of Process 256:
Such induciae as the Sheriff shall think proper.Sc. 1868 Act 31 & 32 Vict. c.100 § 14:
All Summonses before the Court of Session may proceed on Seven Days Warning or Induciae where the Defender is within Scotland . . . in place of the longer Induciae required by the present Practice.Sc. 1893 A. J. G. Mackay Practice Ct. Session 196:
The induciae, which are seven days when the defender is within Scotland, unless in Orkney or Shetland, or any other islands or furth of Scotland.Sc. 1904 A. M. Anderson Crim. Law 317:
If the accused is called upon to plead before the expiry of the induciae, he may object to do so.Sc. 1928 Green's Encycl. Law Scot. V. 576:
In the case of letters of horning and poinding, warrant to poind and arrest is incorporated. The induciae, or days of charge, vary.
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