PART 6 MISCELLANEOUS

The Crown, the Lord Lyon and Barony

63 Baronies and other dignities and offices

1

Any jurisdiction of, and any conveyancing privilege incidental to, barony shall on the appointed day cease to exist; but nothing in this Act affects the dignity of baron or any other dignity or office (whether or not of feudal origin).

2

When, by this Act, an estate held in barony ceases to exist as a feudal estate, the dignity of baron, though retained, shall not attach to the land; and on and after the appointed day any such dignity shall be, and shall be transferable only as, incorporeal heritable property (and shall not be F1a right as respects which a deed can be registered in the Land Register of Scotland or recorded in the Register of Sasines).

3

Where there is registered, before the appointed day, a heritable security over an estate to which is attached the dignity of baron, the security shall on and after that day (until discharge) affect—

a

in the case of an estate of dominium utile, both the dignity of baron and the land; and

b

in any other case, the dignity of baron.

4

In this section—

  • “conveyancing privilege” includes any privilege in relation to prescription;

  • “dignity” includes any quality or precedence associated with, and any heraldic privilege incidental to, a dignity; and

  • “registered” has the same meaning as in Part 4 of this Act.