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The following words and expressions in this Act, and in the schedules annexed to this Act, shall have the several meanings hereby assigned to them, unless there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction; that is to say,
[F1The words “grantor”,] “grantee,” “disponer,” “disponee,” “legatee,” “adjudger,” and “purchaser” shall extend to and include the heirs, successors, and representatives of [F1such grantor], grantee, disponer, disponee, legatee, adjudger, or purchaser respectively; and the word “successors” shall extend to and include heirs, disponees, assignees legal as well as voluntary, executors, and representatives:
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The words “Sheriff of Chancery” shall extend to and include the Sheriff of Chancery and his substitute under this Act, or under the Act of the tenth and eleventh Victoria, chapter forty-seven; and the word “Sheriff” shall extend to and include [F3the Sheriff Principal F4... of any sheriffdom F4... and the Sheriff] and the Sheriff of Chancery and his substitute:
The words “Sheriff Clerk of Chancery” shall extend to and include the Sheriff Clerk of Chancery acting under this Act, or who acted under the M1Act of the tenth and eleventh Victoria, chapter forty-seven, and the depute of such Sheriff Clerk; and the words “Sheriff Clerk” shall extend to and include the Sheriff Clerk of Chancery and [F5the Sheriff Clerk F4... of the sheriff court district concerned] F4... and their respective deputes:
F6... the word “Prince” shall extend to and include the Prince and Steward of Scotland and his successors:
F6...
The word “deed” and the word “conveyance” shall each extend to and include all F6... writs, dispositions, F6... whether inter vivos or mortis causa, and whether absolute or in trust, F6... heritable securities, reversions, assignations, instruments, decrees of constitution relating to land to be afterwards adjudged, decrees of adjudication for debt, and of adjudication in implement, and of constitution and adjudication combined, whether for debt or implement, decrees of declarator and adjudication, decrees of sale, and decrees of general and of special service F6... and the summonses, petitions, or warrants on which any such decrees proceed, warrants to judicial factors, trustees, or beneficiaries of a lapsed trust, to make up titles to lands, and the petitions on which such warrants proceed, writs of acknowledgment, contracts of excambion, deeds of entail F6... and all deeds, decrees, and writings by which lands, or rights in lands, are constituted or completed or conveyed, or discharged, whether dated, granted, or obtained before or after the passing of this Act, and official extracts of all deeds and conveyances; and all codicils, deeds of nomination, and other writings annexed to or endorsed on deeds or conveyances or bearing reference to deeds or conveyances separately granted, and decrees of declarator naming or appointing persons to exercise or enjoy the rights or powers conferred by such deeds or conveyances, shall be deemed and taken for the purposes of this Act to be parts of the deeds or conveyances to which they severally relate, and shall have the same effect in all respects as to the persons so named and appointed as if they had been named and appointed in the deeds or conveyances themselves:
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The word “instrument” shall extend to and include all notarial instruments F6... and also all instruments of sasine, instruments of resignation ad remanentiam, instruments of resignation and sasine, and instruments of cognition and sasine, and instruments of cognition:
The words “heritable security” and “security” shall each extend to and include all heritable bonds, bonds and dispositions in security, bonds of annual rent, bonds of annuity, and all securities authorized to be granted by the seventh section of the M2Debts Securities (Scotland) Act 1856, and all deeds and conveyances whatsoever, legal as well as voluntary, which are or may be used for the purpose of constituting or completing or transmitting a security over lands or over the rents and profits thereof, as well as such lands themselves and the rents and profits thereof, and the sums, principal, interest, and penalties secured by such securities, but shall not include securities by way of ground annual, whether redeemable or irredeemable, or absolute dispositions qualified by back bonds or letters:
The word “creditor” shall extend to and include the party in whose favour an heritable security is granted, and his successors in right thereof:
The word “debtor” shall include the debtor and his successors:
The word “lands” shall extend to and include all heritable subjects, securities, and rights:
The words “notary public” shall be held to mean a notary public duly admitted to practise in Scotland:
The word “petitioner” shall extend to and include any person who may have presented or may present a petition within the meaning of this Act, or of any Act hereby repealed:
The words “judicial factor” shall extend to and include judicial factors F7... to persons under incapacity, F8 ..., factors loco absentis, and all judicial managers:
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Textual Amendments
F1Words 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. 8(2)(a)(b) (with ss. 58, 62, 75); S.S.I. 2003/456, art. 2
F2Definition repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1893 (c. 14)
F3Words substituted by virtue of Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1971 (c. 58), s. 4(2), Sch. para. 1
F4Words repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1893 (c. 14)
F5Words substituted by virtue of Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 65), Sch. 27, Pt. I para. 1(3)
F6Words in s. 3 repealed (28.11.2004) by Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 5), ss. 71, 77(2), sch. 12 para. 8(2)(c)-(h), sch. 13 Pt. 1 (with ss. 58, 62, 75); S.S.I. 2003/456, art. 2
F7S. 3: words in definition of “judicial factor” repealed (1.4.2002) by 2000 asp 4, s. 88(3), Sch. 6; S.S.I. 2001/81, art. 3, Sch. 2
F8Words in s. 3 repealed (25.9.1991) by Age of Legal Capacity (Scotland) Act 1991 (c. 50, SIF 49:8), ss. 10(2), 11(2), Sch. 2 (with s. 1(3))
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