# Entail (Scotland) Act 1882, Section 6: Provisions for applications for authority to borrow, charge, lease, and feu.


(1) Where application is made for authority to borrow and charge for improvement expenditure, the Court or sheriff may grant authority to execute bonds and dispositions in security for three fourths of the sum authorised to be borrowed, and whether the improvements shall have been executed at the date of the application or are contemplated.
(2) Where application is made for authority to grant a feu or a lease of a portion of an entailed estate, not exceeding two acres in extent, for a scientific purpose, or other purpose of public utility, the Court or the sheriff, if satisfied that it would be for the public advantage and not prejudicial to the estate, may grant such authority for such yearly feu duty or rent as may be agreed upon, though inadequate and below the just value, subject to such conditions as the Court or the sheriff may think fit.
Provided that it shall not be lawful for the applicant to take any grassum or consideration for granting such feu or lease other than the feu duty or the rent, and if any such grassum or consideration shall be taken such feu or lease shall be null and void.
(3) In every case in which authority to feu or grant leases has been or shall be granted to the heir in possession of any entailed estate such authority shall be available to the succeeding heirs.
(4) When at least one-fourth part of a capital sum borrowed for improvements on an entailed estate upon the security of a terminable rentcharge, in manner provided by the Entail Acts, shall have been defrayed by the heir in possession, it shall be lawful for such heir, without the consent of the nearest heir being required, and whether the cost of such improvements shall have been charged prior or subsequent to the passing of the Entail Amendment Act, 1875, to avail himself of the provisions of the said Act, for the substitution of a bond or disposition in security over the estate for the remainder of such capital sum.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/45-46/53/section/6 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/entail-scotland-act-1882/section-6
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