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Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1985
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8 Rectification of defectively expressed documents.S
(1)Subject to section 9 of this Act, where the court is satisfied, on an application made to it, that—
(a)a document intended to express or to give effect to an agreement fails to express accurately the common intention of the parties to the agreement at the date when it was made; or
(b)a document intended to create, transfer, vary or renounce a right, not being a document falling within paragraph (a) above, fails to express accurately the intention of the grantor of the document at the date when it was executed,
it may order the document to be rectified in any manner that it may specify in order to give effect to that intention.
(2)For the purposes of subsection (1) above, the court shall be entitled to have regard to all relevant evidence, whether written or oral.
(3)Subject to section 9 of this Act, in ordering the rectification of a document under subsection (1) above (in this subsection referred to as “the original document”), the court may, at its own instance or on an application made to it, order the rectification of any other document intended for any of the purposes mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) of subsection (1) above which is defectively expressed by reason of the defect in the original document.
(4)Subject to section 9(4) of this Act, a document ordered to be rectified under this section shall have effect as if it had always been so rectified.
(5)Subject to section 9(5) of this Act, where a document recorded in the Register of Sasines is ordered to be rectified under this section and the order is likewise recorded, the document shall be treated as having been always so recorded as rectified.
(6)Nothing in this section shall apply to a document of a testamentary nature.
(7)It shall be competent to register in the Register of Inhibitions and Adjudications, a notice of an application under this section for the rectification of a deed relating to land, being an application in respect of which authority for service or citation has been granted; and the land to which the application relates shall be rendered litigious as from the date of registration of such a notice.
(8)A notice under subsection (7) above shall specify the names and designations of the parties to the application and the date when authority for service or citation was granted and contain a description of the land to which the application relates.
(9)In this section and section 9 of this Act “the court” means the Court of Session or the sheriff.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 8 restricted (1.9.1992) by Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 1992 (c. 37), s. 16, Sch. 3 paras. 3(2), 4(5); S.I. 1992/817, art. 3(2), Sch. 3
C2S. 8 restricted (1.4.1993) by Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 1992 (c. 37), s. 17(7); S.I. 1992/817, art. 3(2), Sch. 4
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