{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-etc-scotland-act-2012/section-87",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-etc-scotland-act-2012/section-87.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2012/5",
  "legislation_title": "Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registration-etc-scotland-act-2012",
  "path": "section/87",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "87",
  "heading": "Acquisition from representative of disponer without valid title",
  "text": "(1) Section 86 also applies where a person (“P”), who is not entered in the proprietorship section of the title sheet as proprietor but who would have power to dispone the land—\n(a) were A the proprietor, or\n(b) (where A has died) had A been the proprietor,\npurports to dispone it.\n(2) For the purposes of section 86, possession of the plot of land by P is to be treated as if it were possession of the land by A.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 87 in force at 8.12.2014 by S.S.I. 2014/127, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2012/5/section/87",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:14:50.857744+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."
}