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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/executors-scotland-act-1900/section-3",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/63-64/55",
  "legislation_title": "Executors (Scotland) Act 1900",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/executors-scotland-act-1900",
  "path": "section/3",
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  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Who may be confirmed executors nominate.",
  "text": "Where a testator has not appointed any person to act as his executor, or failing any person so appointed, the testamentary trustees of such testator, original or assumed, or appointed by the Supreme Court or the sheriff court(if any), failing whom any general disponee or universal legatory or residuary legatee appointed by such testator, shall be held to be his executor nominate, and entitled to confirmation in that character.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words inserted by Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1980 (c. 55, SIF 72:2), s. 28(1), Sch. 2 para. 2"
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:25:45.011145+00:00"
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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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