Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1876

44 Schedule C. of 21 & 22 Vict. c. 56. hereby repealed, and new form of intimation, &c

The sheriff clerk shall, after a petition for the appointment of an executor has been intimated by him as provided by section four of the Act passed in the twenty-first and twenty-second years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter fifty-six, and after receiving the certified copy of the printed and published particulars therein set forth, forthwith certify these facts on the petition in the following or similar terms : " Intimated and published in terms of the statute," which certificate (in lieu of the certificate in the form of Schedule C. annexed to the said Act, which Schedule C. is hereby repealed,) shall be dated and signed by him, and shall be sufficient evidence of the facts therein set forth: Provided always, that special intimation shall be made to all executors already decerned or confirmed to a deceased person of any subsequent petition for the appointment of an executor which may be presented with reference to the personal estate of the same deceased person.