Small Testate Estates (Scotland) Act 1876

3 Where estate does not exceed one hundred and fifty pounds, executor may apply to commissary clerk to fill up inventory and expede confirmation

Where the whole real and personal estate and effects of a testate dying domiciled in Scotland shall not exceed in value the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds, the executor of such testate may apply to the commissary clerk of the county within which such testate was domiciled at the time of death ; and the said commissary clerk, on production of the will or other writing of the testate containing the nomination of an executor, shall prepare and fill up an inventory and relative oath, as nearly as may be in the form of Schedule A. appended to this Act, and, upon such inventory being duly sworn to by the executor, shall proceed to record said will or other writing and inventory and expede confirmation in the form as nearly as may be of Schedule B. annexed to this Act, and shall deliver the same to the executor without the payment of any fee therefor save as is provided in Schedule C. annexed to this Act; and such confirmation shall have the same force and effect as that prescribed in Schedule E. annexed to the Act of the twenty-first and twenty-second Victoria, chapter fifty-six; and where such confirmation shall contain English or Irish estate the registrar of any probate court in England or Ireland shall affix the seal of the said court thereto on the confirmation being sent to him by the commissary clerk for that purpose, enclosing a fee of two shillings and sixpence.