The vote means that warrantsales cannot now go-ahead even if an order has been granted.
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It aims to abolish warrantsales, a peculiarly Scottish system of debt recovery under which people, mainly the poor, have their possessions impounded and sold by court-appointed officials.
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In effect, the new law was made redundant by a subsequent government bill to introduce a new system of debt collection - warrantsales by another name, argued Sheridan.
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