# Small Testate Estates (Scotland) 1876, Section 3: Where estate does not exceed £36,000 executor may apply to the commissary clerk to fill up inventory and expede confirmation.

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Where the whole estate of a testate is of a value not exceeding £36,000 an applicant for confirmation thereto may apply to the commissary clerk of the county within which such testate was domiciled at the time of death; and the said commissary clerk, on production of the will or other writing of the testate containing the nomination of an executor, shall prepare and fill up an inventory and relative declaration , as nearly as may be in the form of Schedule A. appended to this Act, and, upon such an inventory and declaration being duly signed by the executor, shall proceed to record said will or other writing and inventory and expede confirmation in the form as nearly as may be of Schedule B. annexed to this Act, and shall deliver the same to the executor on payment of the requisite fee ; and such confirmation shall have the same force and effect as that prescribed in Schedule E. annexed to the Confirmation of Executors (Scotland) Act 1858; . . .

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/39-40/24/section/3 (the official version)
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