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MULTIPLEPOINDING

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 966 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MULTIPLEPOINDING  , in Scots See also:

law, the technical See also:term for a See also:form of See also:action by which conflicting claims to the same fund or See also:property are determined . The action is brought either by the holder or by a claimant in his name . All who have any claims in the fund or property in question are ordered to appear and give in their claims; the See also:court then prefers them according to their respective rights, and the holder of the fund or property in dispute on See also:payment or delivery is absolved from any further claim in regard to it . It corresponds to the See also:process of inter-pleader in See also:English law .

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