http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2000/5/part/1/2014-12-08Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000An Act of the Scottish Parliament to abolish the feudal system of land tenure; to abolish a related system of land tenure; to make new provision as respects the ownership of land; to make consequential provision for the extinction and recovery of feuduties and of certain other perpetual periodical payments and for the extinction by prescription of any obligation to pay redemption money under the Land Tenure Reform (Scotland) Act 1974; to make further provision as respects real burdens affecting land; to provide for the disentailment of land; to discharge all rights of irritancy held by superiors; to abolish the obligation of thirlage; to prohibit with certain exceptions the granting of leases over land for periods exceeding 175 years; to make new provision as respects conveyancing; to enable firms with separate personality to own land; and for connected purposes.2000-06-09texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2016-11-01Expert Participation2014-12-08PART 1 ABOLITION OF FEUDAL TENURE
1 Abolition on appointed day

The feudal system of land tenure, that is to say the entire system whereby land is held by a vassal on perpetual tenure from a superior is, on the appointed day, abolished.

2 Consequences of abolition1

An estate of dominium utile of land shall, on the appointed day, cease to exist as a feudal estate but shall forthwith become the ownership of the land and, in so far as is consistent with the provisions of this Act, the land shall be subject to the same subordinate real rights and other encumbrances as was the estate of dominium utile.

2

Every other feudal estate in land shall, on that day, cease to exist.

3

It shall, on that day, cease to be possible to create a feudal estate in land.

3 Amendment of Land Registration (Scotland) Act 1979

The Land Registration (Scotland) Act 1979 (c.33) shall be amended as follows—

a

in section 4(2) (applications for registration which are not to be accepted by the Keeper of the Registers of Scotland), after paragraph (a) there shall be inserted—

aa

it relates in whole or in part to an interest in land which by, under or by virtue of any provision of the Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 5) is an interest which has ceased to exist;

;

b

in section 9 (rectification of Land Register of Scotland)—

i

in subsection (3), at the beginning insert “ Subject to subsection (3B) below, ”; and

ii

after subsection (3A) insert—

3B

Subject to subsection (3C) below, rectification (whether requisite or in exercise of the Keeper’s discretion) to take account of, or of anything done (or purportedly done) under or by virtue of, any provision of the Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 5), other than section 4 or 65, shall, for the purposes of subsection (3) above (and of section 12(3)(cc) of this Act), be deemed not to prejudice a proprietor in possession.

3C

For the purposes of subsection (3B) above, rectification does not include entering or reinstating in a title sheet a real burden or a condition affecting an interest in land.

;

and

c

in section 12(3) (circumstances in which there is no entitlement to be indemnified by the Keeper), after paragraph (c) insert—

cc

the loss arises in consequence of—

i

a rectification which; or

ii

there being, in the register, an inaccuracy the rectification of which,

were there a proprietor in possession, would be deemed, by subsection

3B

of section 9 of this Act, not to prejudice that proprietor;

.

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