Conveyancing (Scotland) Acts (1874 and 1879) Amendment Act 1887

1887 CHAPTER 69 50 and 51 Vict

An Act to amend the Conveyancing (Scotland) Act, 1874, and the Conveyancing (Scotland) Act (1874) Amendment Act, 1879.

[16th September 1887]

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Preamble omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1908 (c. 49)

C2 Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3

F1 1 Limitation of liability of trustees for casualties. U.K.

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Textual Amendments

F1 S. 1 repealed (S.) (28.11.2004) by Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 5), ss. 71, 77(2), sch. 12 para. 11(2), sch. 13 Pt. 1 (with ss. 58, 62, 75); S.S.I. 2003/456, art. 2

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Textual Amendments

F2 S. 2 repealed by Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1913 (c. 20), Sch. I

F3 3 Novodamus not challengeable because lands not resigned into superior’s hands. U.K.

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Textual Amendments

F3 S. 3 repealed (S.) (28.11.2004) by Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 5), ss. 71, 77(2), sch. 12 para. 11(2), sch. 13 Pt. 1 (with ss. 58, 62, 75); S.S.I. 2003/456, art. 2

F4 4 Decree of irritancy not final till extract recorded. U.K.

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Textual Amendments

F4 S. 4 repealed (S.) (28.11.2004) by Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 5), ss. 71, 77(2), sch. 12 para. 11(2), sch. 13 Pt. 1 (with ss. 58, 62, 75); S.S.I. 2003/456, art. 2

5 Letters of administration of will, &c. equivalent to will for authorization of notary to expede instrument. U.K.

F5 ... letters of administration of the will or other testamentary settlement of a person deceased issued by any Court of Probate in England or in Ireland, or in any British colony or dependency, [F6 or an exemplification] of such letters of administration, shall for the purpose of F5 ... completing a title to any [F6 land or real right] in land or to any heritable security, be held to be equivalent to and as effectual as the production to such notary of the will or settlement itself, or of an extract thereof from the books of Council and SessionF5 ....

Textual Amendments

F5 Words in s. 5 repealed (S.) (28.11.2004) by Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc.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. 11(3)(a)(c)(e), sch. 13 Pt. 1 (with ss. 58, 62, 75); S.S.I. 2003/456, art. 2

F6 Words 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. 11(3)(b)(d) (with ss. 58, 62, 75); S.S.I. 2003/456, art. 2

6 Short title. U.K.

This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Conveyancing (Scotland) Acts (1874 and 1879) Amendment Act, 1887.