Conveyancing (Scotland) Act 1924

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4 [F1Completion of title: General Register of Sasines]S

Any person having right either to land or to a heritable security [F2may, if the last recorded title to the right is recorded in the General Register of Sasines,] complete his title in manner following:—

(1)A person having such right to land may complete a title thereto by recording in the appropriate Register of Sasines a notice of title in or as nearly as may be in the terms of Form No. 1 of Schedule B to this Act, in which notice of title such person shall deduce his title from the person [F3having the last recorded title]:

(2)When the writ forming the immediate connection with the person [F4having the last recorded title] is an unrecorded conveyance, deed or decree, the recording of which in the appropriate Register of Sasines on behalf of the person in whose favour the same is conceived would have completed his title F5..., the person having such right to the land therein contained or part thereof may complete a title thereto by recording in the appropriate Register of Sasines such conveyance, deed or decree, docqueted in manner prescribed in Note 7 to Schedule B to this Act, along with a notice of title in or as nearly as may be in the terms of Form No.2 of that Schedule, in which notice of title such person shall deduce his title from the person in whose favour such conveyance, deed or decree is conceived:

(3)A person having such right to a heritable security, or part thereof, which appears in the appropriate Register of Sasines as a burden on land, may complete a title thereto by recording in the appropriate Register of Sasines a notice of title in or as nearly as may be in the terms of Form No. 3 of Schedule B to this ActF6..., in which notice of title such person shall deduce his title from the person [F7having the last recorded title to the heritable security]:

(4)A person having such right to an unrecorded heritable security or part thereof contained in a deed the recording of which in the appropriate Register of Sasines on behalf of the original creditor would have [F8completed his title thereto and to] the land out of which it is payable, or either of them, but which has not been so recorded, may complete a title thereto by recording in the appropriate Register of Sasines such heritable security, which shall be docqueted in manner prescribed in Note 7 to Schedule B to this Act, along with a notice of title in or as nearly as may be in the terms of Form No. 5 of that ScheduleF9..., in which notice of title such person shall deduce his title from the original creditor in such heritable security.

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F1S. 4 title substituted (8.12.2014) by Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012 (asp 5), ss. 53(2)(b), 122, 123 (with s. 121, sch. 4 paras. 13, 16); S.S.I. 2014/127, art. 2

F2Words in s. 4 substituted (8.12.2014) by Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012 (asp 5), ss. 53(2)(a), 122, 123 (with s. 121, sch. 4 paras. 13, 16); S.S.I. 2014/127, art. 2

F3Words in s. 4(1) substituted (28.11.2004) by Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 5), ss. 71, 77(2), sch. 12 para. 15(4)(a) (with ss. 58, 62, 75); S.S.I. 2003/456, art. 2

F4Words in s. 4(2) substituted (28.11.2004) by Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 5), ss. 71, 77(2), sch. 12 para. 15(4)(b)(i) (with ss. 58, 62, 75); S.S.I. 2003/456, art. 2

F5Words in s. 4(2) repealed (28.11.2004) by Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 5), ss. 71, 77(2), sch. 12 para. 15(4)(b)(ii), sch. 13 Pt. 1 (with ss. 58, 62, 75); S.S.I. 2003/456, art. 2