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  "title": "The Prior Rights of Surviving Spouse (Scotland) Order 2005",
  "short_title": "Prior Rights of Surviving Spouse 2005",
  "long_title": "Where a person dies intestate leaving a spouse, the surviving spouse’s prior rights in terms of section 8 and 9 of the Succession (Scotland) Act 1964 are at present as follows–Where the deceased had an interest as owner or tenant in a dwellinghouse in which the surviving spouse was ordinarily resident, the surviving spouse has a prior right–where the value of the interest does not exceed £130,000, to the interest (or in certain cases to a sum equal to its value); orin any other case, to the sum of £130,000.Where the deceased owned the furniture and plenishings of a dwellinghouse in which the surviving spouse was ordinarily resident, the surviving spouse has a prior right–where the value of the furniture and plenishings does not exceed £22,000, to the whole furniture and plenishings; orin any other case, to such part of the furniture and plenishings, to a value not exceeding £22,000, as the surviving spouse may choose.The surviving spouse has a prior right–where the deceased left issue, to the sum of £35,000; orwhere the deceased left no issue, to the sum of £58,000.",
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