Rescissory Actions

In Scotch law. Actions which are brought to set aside deeds. Patterson, Comp. 1058, note. Proper improbation is an action brought for declaring writing false or forged. Reduction improbation is an action whereby a person who may be hurt or affected by a writing insists on producing or exhibiting it in court, in order to have it set aside, or its effects ascertained under the certification that the writing, if ^ot produced, shall be declared false and forged. In an action of simple reduction, the certification is only temporary, declaring the writings called for null until they be produced, so that they recover their full force after their production. Ersk. bk. 4, tit. 1, § 5; Id. bk. 4, tit. 1, § 8.