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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/confirmation-of-executors-scotland-act-1823/section-1.",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo4/4/98",
  "legislation_title": "Confirmation of Executors (Scotland) Act 1823",
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  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Right to confirmation to transmit to representatives.",
  "text": "In all cases of intestate succession, where any person or persons who, at the period of the death of the intestate, being next of kin, shall die before confirmation be expede, the right of such next of kin shall transmit to his or her representatives, so that confirmation may and shall be granted to such representatives, in the same manner as confirmations might have been granted to such next of kin immediately upon the death of such intestate.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo4/4/98/section/1.",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:01:47.401816+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}