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An Act to improve the system of registration of writs relating to heritable property in Scotland.
[31st July 1868]
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Functions of Keeper of the General Register of Sasines now exercisable by Keeper of the Registers of Scotland: Reorganisation of Offices (Scotland) Act 1928 (c. 34), s. 5 and Public Registers and Records (Scotland) Act 1948 (c. 57), s. 1(2)
C2Functions of Lord Clerk Register as Keeper of the Records, Registers and Rolls for Scotland now exercisable by Keeper of the Registers of Scotland: Lord Clerk Register (Scotland) Act 1879 (c. 44), s. 6, Reorganisation of Offices (Scotland) Act 1928 (c. 34), s. 5 and Public Registers and Records (Scotland) Act 1948 (c. 57), s. 1(2)
C3Preamble omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1893 (c. 14)
C4Words of enactment and certain other words repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1893 (c. 14) and Statute Law Revision Act 1898 (c. 22)
C5Registration Act 1617 (c. 16) cited or referred to by its short title under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1893 (c. 14), s. 3
Commencement Information
I1Act wholly in force at Royal Assent
This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Land Registers (Scotland) Act, 1868.
[F1(1)]The term “register of sasines,” as used in this Act, shall be held as applying to the registers directed to be kept by the Registration Act 1617, for the registration of sasines, reversions, and other writs directed to be recorded therein by that Act or by any subsequent Act of Parliament; and the word “writ,” as used in this Act, shall apply to and include all deeds and writings which have heretofore been in the practice of being recorded in these registers, or which may under the provisions of this Act be recorded in the general register of sasines.
[F2(2)In this Act, “traditional document” and “electronic document” have the meanings given by sections 1A and 9A respectively of the Requirements of Writing (Scotland) Act 1995.]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 2 renumbered as s. 2(1) (12.3.2018) by The Registers of Scotland (Digital Registration, etc.) Regulations 2018 (S.S.I. 2018/72), regs. 1(1), 9(2)(a)
F2S. 2(2) inserted (12.3.2018) by The Registers of Scotland (Digital Registration, etc.) Regulations 2018 (S.S.I. 2018/72), regs. 1(1), 9(2)(b)
The general register of sasines for Scotland shall be so kept that the writs applicable to each county shall be entered in a separate series of presentment books, and the writs shall be minuted in a separate series of minute books, and engrossed in a separate series of register volumes, in the order of presentment, and where any writ shall contain land in more than one county such writ shall be entered by the ingiver in the presentment book of such of these counties as may be specified in the [F3application for registration] and shall be minuted in the minute book of such of these counties or county as are specified in [F3that application] and shall be engrossed at length in the division of the register applicable to one only of the said counties; and a memorandum shall be entered in each division of the register applicable to the other counties or county in the presentment book of which it is entered as aforesaid, setting forth the volume of the register and the folio or folios of such volume in which such engrossment is made; and such memorandum shall be deemed to be equivalent to full engrossment of such writ in the division of the register wherein such memorandum shall be entered as aforesaid: For the purposes of this Act, the barony and regality of Glasgow, and also the stewartry of Kirkcudbright, shall each be treated as a county.
Textual Amendments
F3Words in s. 3 substituted (28.11.2004) by Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 5), ss. 71, 77(2), Sch. 12 para. 7(2)(a)(b) (with ss. 58, 62, 75); S.S.I. 2003/456, art. 2
Textual Amendments
F4S. 4 repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1875 (c. 66)
[F5Where any writ contains land or heritages in more than one county and application has not been made for registration in relation] to all the counties to which it applies, the registration of such writ shall, notwithstanding, as regards the county or counties mentioned in the [F6application], and in the minute books and register volumes of which county or counties it has been recorded, or a memorandum thereof entered, be effectual; and it shall be competent afterwards to present such writ [F7for registration], and to minute and register such writ in the register of any other county or counties to which such writ appliesF8...; and in the case of such subsequent registration it shall not be necessary to engross the writ at length in the division of the register applicable to such county or counties, but the same may be effected by the insertion of a memorandum in such division of the register in the manner herein-before provided for, and such subsequent registration shall be effectual as regards the county or counties to which [F9 it applies ], of and from the date of such subsequent registration.
Textual Amendments
F5Words in s. 5 substituted (S.) (28.11.2004) by Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 5), ss. 71, 77(2), Sch. 12 para. 7(3)(a) (with ss. 58, 62, 75); S.S.I. 2003/456, art. 2
F6Word in s. 5 substituted (S.) (28.11.2004) by Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 5), ss. 71, 77(2), Sch. 12 para. 7(3)(b) (with ss. 58, 62, 75); S.S.I. 2003/456, art. 2
F7Words in s. 5 substituted (S.) (28.11.2004) by Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 5), ss. 71, 77(2), Sch. 12 para. 7(3)(c) (with ss. 58, 62, 75); S.S.I. 2003/456, art. 2
F8Words in s. 5 repealed (S.) (28.11.2004) by Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 5), ss. 71, 77(2), Sch. 12 para. 7(3)(d), Sch. 13 Pt. 1 (with ss. 58, 62, 75); S.S.I. 2003/456, art. 2
F9Words in s. 5 substituted (S.) (28.11.2004) by Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 5), ss. 71, 77(2), Sch. 12 para. 7(3)(e) (with ss. 58, 62, 75); S.S.I. 2003/456, art. 2
Where [F10an application for registration of a writ in the general register of sasines is transmitted by post] the keeper of said register shall, upon the receipt of such [F11application], cause the same to be acknowledged to the sender, and [F12cause the writ] to be presentedF13... by a clerk in his office to be appointed by him for that purpose, and who shall be held as the ingiver of the writ; and such clerk shall [F14 . . . F15 in the presentment book . . . F15 enter] the name of the sender; and such writ shall be recorded in the same manner as any other writ [F16which is a traditional document] presented for registration; and on the writ being ready for delivery F17. . ., the keeper shall transmit the writs to the sender by post; and where two or more [F18such applications] . . . F15 shall be received by the keeper at the same time, the entries F19... in the presentment book and minute book [F20for the writs in respect of which such applications are made] shall be of the same year, month, [F21and day], and such writs shall be deemed and taken to be presented and registered contemporaneously.
Textual Amendments
F10Words in s. 6 substituted (3.12.2004) by Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2004 (S.S.I. 2004/535), art. 1, Sch. para. 1(a)
F11Word in s. 6 substituted (3.12.2004) by Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2004 (S.S.I. 2004/535), art. 1, Sch. para. 1(b)
F12Words in s. 6 inserted (3.12.2004) by Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2004 (S.S.I. 2004/535), art. 1, Sch. para. 1(c)
F13Words in s. 6 repealed (28.11.2004) by Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 5), ss. 71, 77(2), Sch. 12 para. 7(4), Sch. 13 Pt. 1 (with ss. 58, 62, 75); S.S.I. 2003/456, art. 2
F14Words substituted by Public Registers and Records (Scotland) Act 1948 (c. 57), s. 3
F15Words repealed by Land Registration (Scotland) Act 1979 (c. 33, SIF 31:3), Sch. 4
F16Words in s. 6 inserted (12.3.2018) by The Registers of Scotland (Digital Registration, etc.) Regulations 2018 (S.S.I. 2018/72), regs. 1(1), 9(3)
F17Words in s. 6 repealed (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 14, s. 1(2); S.I. 1996/94, art. 2
F18Words in s. 6 substituted (3.12.2004) by Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2004 (S.S.I. 2004/535), art. 1, Sch. para. 1(d)
F19Word in s. 6 omitted (3.12.2004) by virtue of Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2004 (S.S.I. 2004/535), art. 1, Sch. para. 1(e)
F20Words in s. 6 inserted (3.12.2004) by Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2004 (S.S.I. 2004/535), art. 1, Sch. para. 1(f)
F21Words substituted by Land Registration (Scotland) Act 1979 (c. 33, SIF 31:3), Sch. 1 para. 1
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C6S. 6 power to amend conferred (S.) (8.12.2014) by Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012 (asp 5), ss. 38, 122, 123 (with s. 121, Sch. 4 paras. 13, 16); S.S.I. 2014/127, art. 2
(1)This section applies where an application is transmitted electronically for recording in the general register of sasines of a writ which is an electronic document which may be recorded in the register.
(2)The keeper of the register must on receipt of an application cause it to be acknowledged to the sender.
(3)The keeper must cause the name of the sender to be entered in the presentment book.
(4)The writ is to be recorded in the same manner as a traditional document, save that the copy or copies are to be entered in and kept on a computer or similar device under the keeper’s management and control.
(5)Following recording, the keeper must confirm recording to the sender.]
Textual Amendments
F22Ss. 6A, 6B inserted (12.3.2018) by The Registers of Scotland (Digital Registration, etc.) Regulations 2018 (S.S.I. 2018/72), regs. 1(1), 9(4)
(1)This section applies where an application transmitted electronically under section 6A is received by the keeper at the same time as—
(a)another such application, or
(b)another application by post under section 6.
(2)The entries in the presentment book and minute book for the writs in respect of which such applications are made are to be of the same year, month and day, and such writs are to be deemed to be presented and registered contemporaneously.]
Textual Amendments
F22Ss. 6A, 6B inserted (12.3.2018) by The Registers of Scotland (Digital Registration, etc.) Regulations 2018 (S.S.I. 2018/72), regs. 1(1), 9(4)
Registration of writs in the general register of sasines shall, except in so far as altered by the provisions of this Act, continue to be made in conformity with the practice heretofore in use; and no error or omission in any presentment book of the general register of sasines to be kept as aforesaid shall invalidate, or in any way affect injuriously, the registration of any writ recorded in said register.
The whole particular registers of sasines in Scotland shall be discontinued . . . F23 and all writs which, previous to the discontinuance of the said particular registers respectively, might competently have been presented for registration therein, shall after said discontinuance be registrable only in the general register of sasines; and registration in the general register of sasines as herein-before directed to be kept for separate counties shall have all the force and effect previously attached to registration in such particular registers of sasines respectively.
Textual Amendments
F23Words repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1893 (c. 14)
Printed abridgments and printed indexes, both of persons and of places, applicable to each county in Scotland, in the form heretofore in use in the General Register House, or in such other form as may from time to time be prescribed by the Lord Clerk Register, shall, from and after the discontinuance of all the particular registers of sasines directed to be discontinued as aforesaid, be prepared under the superintendence of the keeper of the general register of sasines, and as nearly as possible contemporaneously with the minute books and volumes of the register; and such indexes shall be consolidated from time to time for such periods as may be deemed expedient: Provided always, that it shall be lawful at any time for the Lord Clerk Register, if he shall think fit, to direct that abridgments shall cease to be prepared separately from the minutes, and in that case, and in lieu of the preparation and printing of said abridgments, the minutes shall be printed under the superintendence of the keeper of the general register of sasines, in lieu of printing such abridgments.
Textual Amendments
F24Ss. 10, 20, 24, repealed by Public Registers and Records (Scotland) Act 1948 (c. 57), Sch. Pt. II
Textual Amendments
F25Ss. 11, 22, 28, Sch.(A) Nos. 1,2 repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1893 (c. 14)
[F26A writ competent to be registered in the general register of sasines need not be presented to be registered in the books of council and session for the purpose of- (a) preservation; or (b) preservation and execution. If an application for registration of such a writ in the general register of sasines specifies that registration is for either of those purposes, then on registration in that register the writ shall be held to be registered also in the books of council and session for the purpose in question; and the writ registered] shall not be redelivered to the ingiver, but an extract only (containing as part of said extract, where the writ is registered for execution, a warrant for execution,) shall be delivered, which extract may be issued without abiding the actual booking in the register of sasines F27... and shall be signed on each page by the keeper of the register of sasines, or a deputy duly commissioned by him to that effect; and all writs so presented to be registered for preservation and execution shall, after having been engrossed in the general register of sasines in terms of law, be periodically transmitted by the keeper of the register of sasines to the Lord Clerk Register or his deputies, through the office of the keeper of the register of deeds and probative writs and protests in the books of council and session, or otherwise, as the Lord Clerk Register shall prescribe, and shall be indexed, either separately, or along with other writs registered in the books of council and session, as the Lord Clerk Register may direct; and such registration in the general register of sasines shall have all the legal effects of registration in the books of council and session for preservation, or for preservation and execution, as the case may be, as well as of registration in the general register of sasines: Provided always, that no writ shall be held to be registered for the purpose of execution which does not contain a procuratory for registration, or clause of consent to registration, for the purpose of execution, in the body of the writ; and extracts as aforesaid, one or more, of all writs so registered in the said register of sasines may be issued at any time by the keeper of the register of sasines, or, after transmission as aforesaid, by the deputy keeper of the records, or by any one having their authority respectively; and all such extracts, and the warrants of execution therein contained, shall have all the like force and effect as any extract from the books of council and session, or as any warrant of execution contained in or appended to such extract, or as any extract from the general register of sasines, according to the existing law and practice; and such extracts, in terms of this Act, shall be equivalent to the registered writs themselves, except where any writ so registered shall be offered to be improven; and all extracts issued in terms of this Act shall have upon them, in such form as may from time to time be prescribed by the Lord Clerk Register, a certificate or marking indicating the cumulo amount of stamp duty paid on the principal writ recorded and retained for preservation.
Textual Amendments
F26Words in s. 12 substituted (S.) (28.11.2004) by Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 5), ss. 71, 77(2), Sch. 12 para. 7(5)(a) (with ss. 58, 62, 75); S.S.I. 2003/456, art. 2
F27Words in s. 12 repealed (S.) (28.11.2004) by Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 5), ss. 71, 77(2), Sch. 12 paras. 7(5)(b), Sch. 13 Pt. 1 (with ss. 58, 62, 75); S.S.I. 2003/456, art. 2
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C7S. 12 amended by Conveyancing (Scotland) Act 1924 (c. 27), s. 10(7)
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Textual Amendments
F28S. 13 repealed (S.) (8.12.2014) by Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012 (asp 5), ss. 122, 123, Sch. 5 para. 5(2) (with s. 121, Sch. 4 paras. 13, 16); S.S.I. 2014/127, art. 2
The certificate of registration on every writ [F29which is a traditional document] that shall be registered in the general register of sasines, and redelivered to the ingiver, shall be signed by the keeper of said register, or a deputy duly commissioned by him to that effect; and no further signature in order to or in token of such registration shall be necessary to any writ presented for registration in the general register of sasines; but every folio of such writ [F30(which is a traditional document)] shall, in token of such registration, be impressed with an office seal or stamp to be kept in the said general register of sasines.
Textual Amendments
F29Words in s. 14 inserted (12.3.2018) by The Registers of Scotland (Digital Registration, etc.) Regulations 2018 (S.S.I. 2018/72), regs. 1(1), 9(5)(a)
F30Words in s. 14 inserted (12.3.2018) by The Registers of Scotland (Digital Registration, etc.) Regulations 2018 (S.S.I. 2018/72), regs. 1(1), 9(5)(b)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C8S. 14 repealed retrospectively so far as it relates to the signing of certificates of registration by Public Registers and Records (Scotland) Act 1950 (c. 11), s. 1, Sch.
Textual Amendments
F31S. 15 repealed by Prescription and Limitation (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 52, SIF 97), s. 16(2), Sch. 5 Pt. I
The particular registers of inhibitions and interdictions throughout Scotland shall be discontinued, and all diligences, executions, and other writings at present appropriate to those registers, or any of them, shall be registrable only in the general register of inhibitions, which shall be the only competent register for the registration of inhibitions and interdictions; and no publication whatever of such diligences, executions, and other writings, other than registration in said general register of inhibitions, shall in future be necessary, but such registration shall for all purposes whatsoever have all the legal effect of the publication at present in use.
Textual Amendments
F32S. 17 repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1950 (14 Geo. 6 c. 6)
The particular registers of hornings and expired charges shall be continued as at the date of the passing of this Act: Provided always, that where any such register has been heretofore kept as a joint register of hornings and inhibitions, it shall cease to be a competent register for the registration of inhibitions.
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Textual Amendments
F33S. 19 repealed (S.) (8.12.2014) by Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012 (asp 5), ss. 122, 123, Sch. 5 para. 5(2) (with s. 121, Sch. 4 paras. 13, 16); S.S.I. 2014/127, art. 2
Textual Amendments
F34Ss. 10, 20, 24, repealed by Public Registers and Records (Scotland) Act 1948 (c. 57), Sch. Pt. II
It shall be competent to the Treasury to pay to sheriff clerks reasonable allowances for duties discharged by them under this Act out of funds to be voted by Parliament for that purpose.
Textual Amendments
F35Ss. 11, 22, 28, Sch.(A) Nos. 1,2 repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1893 (c. 14)
The keeper of the general register of sasines shall, from and after the discontinuance of the particular registers, or any of them, be subject to such and the like responsibilities and liabilities for loss and damage by reason of neglects, omissions, or errors in the registration of writs in the general register of sasines as the keepers of the particular registers of sasines have hitherto been and now are subject to with reference to the registration of writs in such particular registers.
Textual Amendments
F36Ss. 10, 20, 24, repealed by Public Registers and Records (Scotland) Act 1948 (c. 57), Sch. Pt. II
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Textual Amendments
F37S. 25 repealed (S.) (8.12.2014) by Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012 (asp 5), ss. 122, 123, Sch. 5 para. 5(2) (with s. 121, Sch. 4 paras. 13, 16 ); S.S.I. 2014/127, art. 2
Textual Amendments
F38S. 26 repealed by Lord Clerk Register (Scotland) Act 1879 (c. 44), s. 1
Textual Amendments
F39S. 27 repealed by Burgh Registers (Scotland) Act 1926 (c. 50), s. 4, Sch. 2
Textual Amendments
F40Ss. 11, 22, 28, Sch.(A) Nos. 1,2 repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1893 (c. 14)
Textual Amendments
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[F43Register on behalf of the within named A.B. [or on behalf of A.B. (designation)] in the Register of the County of G. [(or in the Registers of the Counties of G.H. and J); . . . F44
Textual Amendments
F43Forms of warrant of registration and notes substituted by Conveyancing (Scotland) Act 1924 (c. 27), s. 10(1), Sch. F
F44Words repealed by Burgh Registers (Scotland) Act 1926 (c. 50), s. 4, Sch. 2
A.B.
or C.D., W.S. Edinburgh, agent.
or E. & F., W.S. Edinburgh, agents.
(or as the case may be).
Notes to Schedule F.
Note 1.—In the case of a Warrant of Registration written on a deed which is to be recorded in the Register of Sasines in terms of a clause of direction, add after the first word “Register” the words in terms of the clause of direction herein contained.
Note 2.—In the case of a Warrant of Registration written on a deed which is to be recorded in the General Register of Sasines for preservation (or for preservation and execution) insert the words for preservation (or for preservation and execution) as well as for publication.
Note 3.—When the right of the person or persons on whose behalf a deed is to be recorded is a fiduciary one the name or names of the Trustee or other person or persons acting in a fiduciary capacity shall be inserted in the Warrant of Registration written on such deed, and may be followed by a short reference to the capacity in which he or they act, e.g., as Trustee (or Trustees or as the case may be) within mentioned,or, if desired, a fuller reference to such capacity may be given.
Note 4. . . . F45
Textual Amendments
F45Sch. (A) No. 3 Note 4 repealed by Conveyancing and Feudal Reform (Scotland) Act 1970 (c. 35), s. 48, Sch. 11 Pt. II
Note 5.—When a disposition or bond and disposition in security or other deed, decree or heritable security . . . F46 is to be recorded along with . . . F46 a notice of title, add at the end of the Warrant of Registration on . . . F46 such notice of title, the words along with the disposition [or bond and disposition in security, or as the case may be; . . . F46docqueted with reference hereto.]
Textual Amendments
F46Words repealed by Conveyancing and Feudal Reform (Scotland) Act 1970 (c. 35), s. 48, Sch. 11 Pt. II
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Textual Amendments
F47Sch. (B.) repealed by Conveyancing (Scotland) Act 1924 (c. 27), s. 10(7)
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