An Act to authorize the Proprietors of Entailed Estates in Scotland to grant Provisions to the Wives or Husbands and Children of such Proprietors.
[21st June 1824]
WHEREAS by an [Act of the Parliament of Scotland, 1685, c. 22.] Act of the Parliament of Scotland, made in the Year One thousand six hundred and eighty-five, intituled Act concerning Tailzies, it is statuted and declared, that it shall be lawful to His Majesty's Subjects to tailzie their Lands and Estates, with such Provisions and Conditions as they shall think fit, and to affect the said Tailzies with irritant and resolutive Clauses, which Tailzies, when completed and recorded in Manner by the said Act directed, are declared to be real and effectual against Creditors, Comprisers, Adjudgers, and other singular Successors whomsoever : And whereas by an [10 G. 3. c. 51.] Act of Parliament passed in the Tenth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act to encourage the Improvement of Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland, held under Settlement of strict Entail, the Proprietors of Entailed Estates in Scotland were empowered to burden their Estates and the subsequent Heirs of Entail, for the Improvement of their Entailed Estates, in Manner specified in that Act : And whereas sundry Entails of Lands and Estates in Scotland contain no Powers in regard to the granting of Provisions to the Wives or Husbands and Children of the Proprietors thereof; and in many, other Entails, by reason of the Change in the Value of Money the improved Value of Lands and Estates in Scotland, and other Causes, the Powers of granting Provisions to the Wives or" Husbands and Children of the Proprietors of such Entailed Estates .have become entirely inadequate for those Purposes ; and it has become expedient that the Powers of granting such Provisions should be conferred or enlarged, as the Case may be, under certain Regulations and Conditions, in all Entails already made or hereafter to be made :
May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted ; and be it enacted by the King's, most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same,