An appellant in an appeal such as is mentioned in section 176(1) of this Act may at any time prior to lodging the case with the F1Clerk of the Sheriff Appeal Court abandon his appeal by minute signed by himself or his solicitor, written on the complaint or lodged with the clerk of the inferior court, and intimated to the respondent or the respondent’s solicitor, but such abandonment shall be without prejudice to any other competent mode of appeal, review, advocation or suspension.

Subject to section 191 of this Act, on the case being lodged with the F2Clerk of the Sheriff Appeal Court, the appellant shall be held to have abandoned any other mode of appeal which might otherwise have been open to him.