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Part IIIS Administration and winding up of estates

17 Protection of persons acquiring title. S

Where any person has in good faith and for value acquired title to any interest in or security over heritable property which has vested in an executor as aforesaid directly or indirectly from—

(a)the executor, or

(b)a person deriving title directly from the executor,

the title so acquired shall not be challengeable on the ground that the confirmation was reducible or has in fact been reduced, or, in a case falling under paragraph (b) above, that the title should not have been transferred to the person mentioned in that paragraph.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1S. 17 saved by Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions)(Scotland) Act 1968 (c. 70), s. 7