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  "legislation": "apgb/Geo3/10/51",
  "legislation_title": "Entail Improvement Act 1770",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/entail-improvement-act-1770",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to encourage the improvement of lands, tenements, and hereditaments, in . . . Scotland, held under settlements of strict entail.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Act repealed (prosp.) by 2000 asp 5, ss. 76(2), 77(2)(a)(d), Sch. 13 Pt. 1 (with ss. 58, 62, 75)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Certain words of enactment repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1888 (c. 3) and other words of enactment and certain other words omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3(1)(a)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 4(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act extended by Entail Amendment Act 1848 (c. 36), s. 20, Entail Cottages Act 1860 (c. 95) and Entail Amendment (Scotland) Act 1868 (c. 84), s. 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "Short title “The Entail Improvement Act 1770” given by Short Titles Act 1896 (c. 14)"
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X2",
      "text": "Entail Act 1685 (c. 26) cited or referred to by its Short Title under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1893 (c. 14), s. 3"
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  },
  "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."
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