{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/conveyancing-scotland-act-1924/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/conveyancing-scotland-act-1924/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5/14-15/27",
  "legislation_title": "Conveyancing (Scotland) Act 1924",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/conveyancing-scotland-act-1924",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Completion of title: General Register of Sasines",
  "text": "Any person having right either to land or to a heritable security may, if the last recorded title to the right is recorded in the General Register of Sasines, complete his title in manner following:—\n(1) A person having such right to land may complete a title thereto by recording in the appropriate Register of Sasines a notice of title in or as nearly as may be in the terms of Form No. 1 of Schedule B to this Act, in which notice of title such person shall deduce his title from the person having the last recorded title:\n(2) When the writ forming the immediate connection with the person having the last recorded title is an unrecorded conveyance, deed or decree, the recording of which in the appropriate Register of Sasines on behalf of the person in whose favour the same is conceived would have completed his title ..., the person having such right to the land therein contained or part thereof may complete a title thereto by recording in the appropriate Register of Sasines such conveyance, deed or decree, docqueted in manner prescribed in Note 7 to Schedule B to this Act, along with a notice of title in or as nearly as may be in the terms of Form No.2 of that Schedule, in which notice of title such person shall deduce his title from the person in whose favour such conveyance, deed or decree is conceived:\n(3) A person having such right to a heritable security, or part thereof, which appears in the appropriate Register of Sasines as a burden on land, may complete a title thereto by recording in the appropriate Register of Sasines a notice of title in or as nearly as may be in the terms of Form No. 3 of Schedule B to this Act..., in which notice of title such person shall deduce his title from the person having the last recorded title to the heritable security:\n(4) A person having such right to an unrecorded heritable security or part thereof contained in a deed the recording of which in the appropriate Register of Sasines on behalf of the original creditor would have completed his title thereto and to the land out of which it is payable, or either of them, but which has not been so recorded, may complete a title thereto by recording in the appropriate Register of Sasines such heritable security, which shall be docqueted in manner prescribed in Note 7 to Schedule B to this Act, along with a notice of title in or as nearly as may be in the terms of Form No. 5 of that Schedule..., in which notice of title such person shall deduce his title from the original creditor in such heritable security.\n...",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 4 substituted (8.12.2014) by Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012 (asp 5), ss. 53(2)(a), 122, 123 (with s. 121, sch. 4 paras. 13, 16); S.S.I. 2014/127, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 4(1) substituted (28.11.2004) by Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 5), ss. 71, 77(2), sch. 12 para. 15(4)(a) (with ss. 58, 62, 75); S.S.I. 2003/456, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 4(2) substituted (28.11.2004) by Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 5), ss. 71, 77(2), sch. 12 para. 15(4)(b)(i) (with ss. 58, 62, 75); S.S.I. 2003/456, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 4(2) repealed (28.11.2004) by Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 5), ss. 71, 77(2), sch. 12 para. 15(4)(b)(ii), sch. 13 Pt. 1 (with ss. 58, 62, 75); S.S.I. 2003/456, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 4(3) repealed (28.11.2004) by Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 5), ss. 71, 77(2), sch. 12 para. 15(4)(c)(i), sch. 13 Pt. 1 (with ss. 58, 62, 75); S.S.I. 2003/456, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 4(3) substituted (28.11.2004) by Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 5), ss. 71, 77(2), sch. 12 para. 15(4)(c)(ii) (with ss. 58, 62, 75); S.S.I. 2003/456, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 4(4) substituted (28.11.2004) by Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 5), ss. 71, 77(2), sch. 12 para. 15(4)(d)(i) (with ss. 58, 62, 75); S.S.I. 2003/456, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 4(4) repealed (28.11.2004) by Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 5), ss. 71, 77(2), sch. 12 para. 15(4)(d)(ii), sch. 13 Pt. 1 (with ss. 58, 62, 75); S.S.I. 2003/456, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "S. 4 title substituted (8.12.2014) by Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012 (asp 5), ss. 53(2)(b), 122, 123 (with s. 121, sch. 4 paras. 13, 16); S.S.I. 2014/127, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 4 amended by Conveyancing (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 1938 (c. 24), s. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 4 excluded by Land Registration (Scotland) Act 1979 (c. 33, SIF 31:3), s. 3(6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/14-15/27/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:43:30.893299+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."
}