{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/entail-scotland-act-1882/section-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/entail-scotland-act-1882/section-14.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/45-46/53",
  "legislation_title": "Entail (Scotland) Act 1882",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/entail-scotland-act-1882",
  "path": "section/14",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Procedure when heir in possession has disappeared.",
  "text": "If the heir in possession of an entailed estate shall have been absent from Scotland or shall have disappeared . . . and cannot be found, it shall be lawful for the next heir to make affidavit to that effect, and to apply to the Court, and the Court, if satisfied that such affidavit is true, . . . , may appoint a factor loco absentis to such heir in possession, and may if he thinks fit grant authority to and ordain such factor loco absentis to execute an instrument of disentail of the estate, and such instrument shall be as valid and effectual as if it were executed by the heir in possession himself.\nThe value in money of the expectancy or interest in the entailed estate of the heirs whose consents to the disentail must be obtained or dispensed with under the provisions of the Entail Acts shall be ascertained and may be secured upon the estate, or on the application of the factor loco absentis, or of the next heir, the Court may grant authority to the factor loco absentis to sell the estate at the sight of the Court, and the balance of the price, after paying the value of the interests of the heirs whose consents are required or must be dispensed with as aforesaid, shall be paid into bank or invested for behoof of the heir in possession, and shall be held to be movable, . . .\nIf the heir in possession shall have been absent from Scotland or shall have disappeared . . . and a factor loco absentis shall have been appointed . . . ,it shall be lawful for such factor to apply to the Court or the sheriff, as the case may be, for authority to feu, lease, borrow, and charge for improvement expenditure, in the same manner as the heir in possession himself might have done.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Presumption of Death (Scotland) Act 1977 (c. 27, SIF 116:2), s. 19, Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words inserted by Presumption of Death (Scotland) Act 1977 (c. 27, SIF 116:2), s. 18, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words repealed by Presumption of Death (Scotland) Act 1977 (c. 27, SIF 116:2), s. 19, Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words repealed by Presumption of Death (Scotland) Act 1977 (c. 27, SIF 116:2), s. 19, Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words repealed by Presumption of Death (Scotland) Act 1977 (c. 27, SIF 116:2), s. 19, Sch. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/45-46/53/section/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:41:22.748209+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."
}