Crown Lands Act 1833

1833 CHAPTER 69 3 and 4 Will 4

An Act to extend and enlarge the Powers of the Commissioners of His Majesty’s Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings, in relation to the Management and Disposition of the Land Revenue of the Crown of Scotland.

[28th August 1833]

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Short title given by Short Titles Act 1896 (c. 14)

C2 Preamble omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1890 (c. 33)

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Textual Amendments

F1 Ss. 1–6 repealed (with saving for s. 4) by Crown Estate Act 1961 (c. 55), Sch. 2 Pt. II para. 5(4), Sch. 3 Pt. II

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Textual Amendments

F2 S. 7 repealed by Land Tenure Reform (Scotland) Act 1974 (c. 38), Sch. 7

8 Original conveyance, deed, or duplicate thereof, or copy or extract of same duly attested, to be in all courts evidence of right and title. U.K.

Not only the original conveyance, deed, or other document by which any lands or other heritable property or subjects to which this Act relates shall be disposed of under the provisions of this Act, but also the duplicate thereof, to be so transmitted as aforesaid, or a copy or extract of such duplicate, attested by the officer for the time being in whose custody the same shall remain, (and which copies the said officer is hereby authorized and required to grant to any person applying for the same, on payment of a fee of [F3 5p] for every such copy, and if the same shall consist of more than seventy-two words, then of a further fee of [F3 5p] for every seventy-two words over the first seventy-two words,) shall be admitted in all courts as evidence of the right and title of the purchasers, grantees, lessees, and all persons claiming under them, to the subjects to which such conveyances, deeds, or other documents shall relate.

Textual Amendments

F3 Words substituted by virtue of Decimal Currency Act 1969 (c. 19), s. 10(1)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C3 S. 8 repealed by Crown Estate Act 1961 (c. 55), Sch. 3 Pt. II except in so far as applied by Commissioners of Works Act 1852 (c. 28), s. 7; as so applied continued in force by Crown Estate Act 1961 (c. 55), Sch. 2 para. 2(b) and Land Tenure Reform (Scotland) Act 1974 (c. 38), s. 20

C4 “Transmitted as aforesaid” means transmitted to the office of Chancery of Scotland

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Textual Amendments

F4 Ss. 9–22, Sch. repealed, with saving for ss. 8, 9, 19, by Crown Estate Act 1961 (c. 55), Sch. 2 Pt. II paras. 3(2), 5(4), Sch. 3 Pt. II

F5 F5 SCHEDULE U.K.

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Textual Amendments

F5 Ss. 9–22, Sch. repealed, with saving for ss. 8, 9, 19, by Crown Estate Act 1961 (c. 55), Sch. 2 Pt. II paras. 3(2), 5(4), Sch. 3 Pt. II