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Conveyancing (Scotland) Acts (1874 and 1879) Amendment Act 1887

50 & 51 Vict. c. 69 · Enacted 16 September 1887 · Extends to United Kingdom

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An Act to amend the Conveyancing (Scotland) Act, 1874, and the Conveyancing (Scotland) Act (1874) Amendment Act, 1879.

[16th September 1887]C1C2

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C1

Preamble omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1908 (c. 49)

C2

Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3

Contents

  1. 1Limitation of liability of trustees for casualties. Repealed
  2. 2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repealed
  3. 3Novodamus not challengeable because lands not resigned into superior’s hands. Repealed
  4. 4Decree of irritancy not final till extract recorded. Repealed
  5. 5Letters of administration of will, &c. equivalent to will for authorization of notary to expede instrument.
  6. 6Short title.

1Limitation of liability of trustees for casualties.F1

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3Novodamus not challengeable because lands not resigned into superior’s hands.F1

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4Decree of irritancy not final till extract recorded.F1

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5Letters of administration of will, &c. equivalent to will for authorization of notary to expede instrument.

F1... letters of administration of the will or other testamentary settlement of a person deceased issued by any Court of Probate in England or in Ireland, or in any British colony or dependency, F2or an exemplification of such letters of administration, shall for the purpose of ... completing a title to any land or real right in land or to any heritable security, be held to be equivalent to and as effectual as the production to such notary of the will or settlement itself, or of an extract thereof from the books of Council and Session....

6Short title.

This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Conveyancing (Scotland) Acts (1874 and 1879) Amendment Act, 1887.