Multiple-pointing

Multiple-pointing is a well-known form of legal process in Scotland, by which competing claims to one and the same fund are set at rest. A person who has funds in his possession, to which there are more claimants than one, is liable to be harassed by double distress; and hence he commences a suit called the action of multiple-pointing, by which he alleges that he ought not to be made to pay the sum more than once; and as he does not know who is really entitled to payment, he cites all the parties claiming it, that they may fight out their claims among themselves. The corresponding process in England is Interpleader (q.v.).