Intestates Widows and Children (Scotland) Act 1875

SCHEDULE A S Form of Inventory and Relative Oath

Inventory of the Personal Estate, wheresoever situated, of [name and description of deceased] who died at on the day of 18.

Scotland.	£	s.	d.
1.	Cash in the house
2.	Household furniture and other effects in the deceased’s house
3.	Stock in trade and other effects belonging to deceased
4.	Sum in bank; viz., [specify it with interest thereon to date of oath to Inventory.]*
	*[Add any other estate in the usual form.]—

At , the day of one thousand eight hundred and, in presence of Esquire, Commissary Clerk of the commissariot of Appeared [name and description of applicant], who, being solemnly sworn and examined, depones, that the said died at upon the day of , and had at the time of his [or her] death his [or her] ordinary or principal domicile in the county of : That the deponent is the [widow or son or daughter of the said deceased , and is desirous to enter upon the possession and management of the deceased’s estate as his [orher] executor: That the deponent does not know of any testamentary settlement or writing relative to the disposal of the deceased’s personal estate or effects, or any part thereof: That the foregoing inventory, signed by the deponent and the said as relative hereto, is a full and complete inventory of the personal estate and effects of the said deceased wheresoever situated and belonging or due to him [or her] beneficially at the time of his [or her] death, in so far as the same has come to the deponent’s knowledge: That the value at this date of the said personal estate and effects, including the proceeds accrued thereon down to this date, does not exceed [F1 £17, 000] sterling: That confirmation of the said personal estate in Scotland [England and Ireland as the case may be] is required in favour of the deponent. All which is truth, as the deponent shall answer to God.

Textual Amendments

F1 Sum in Sch. A substituted by virtue of Confirmation to Small Estates (Scotland) Act 1979 (c. 22, SIF 116:2), s. 1(1)(d) and S.I. 1989/289, art. 2(b)