Section 5 Letters 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....