# Entail (Scotland) Act 1914 4 & 5 Geo. 5 c. 43 · enacted 10 August 1914 · revised to 28 November 2004 An Act to amend the law of entail in Scotland. PDFs: Printed copy https://openlegislation.uk/entail-scotland-act-1914/pdf/ukpga_19140043_en.pdf ## Introductory text An Act to amend the law of entail in Scotland. [10th August 1914] ## 1 Short title. This Act may be cited as the Entail (Scotland) Act, 1914. ## 2 Entail Act, 1685, not to apply to future deeds. No deed relating to land in Scotland dated after the passing of this Act shall be effective to entail such land, and no such deed shall be recorded in the register of entails; and any prohibition of alienation, contracting debt, or altering the order of succession, ... in any such deed shall be null and void: ... () . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . () . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ## 3 Further facilities for disentail, &c. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ## 4 Power to grant feus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ## 5 Obligations in leases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ## 6 Effect of death of heir of entail in possession on subsisting lease of mansion house. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ## 7 Contract for the sale of growing timber. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ## 8 Application of sections 47, 48, and 49 of 11 & 12 Vict. c. 36. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ## 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ## 10 Interpretation. In this Act... the word “land” shall include all heritages.... --- Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/4-5/43 (the official version) Page: https://openlegislation.uk/entail-scotland-act-1914 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.