{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/succession-scotland-act-1964/section-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/succession-scotland-act-1964/section-10.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1964/41",
  "legislation_title": "Succession (Scotland) Act 1964",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/succession-scotland-act-1964",
  "path": "section/10",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Abolition of terce and courtesy, and calculation of legal rights.",
  "text": "(1) The right of courtesy of a surviving husband in his deceased wife’s estate and the right of terce of a surviving wife in her deceased husband’s estate shall not be exigible out of the estate of a person dying after the commencement of this Act.\n(2) The amount of any claim to legal rights out of an estate shall be calculated by reference to so much of the net moveable estate as remains after the satisfaction of any claims thereon under the two last foregoing sections.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 10(2) substituted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), ss. 261(2), 263(10)(c), Sch. 28 para. 6; S.S.I. 2005/604, {art. (2(c)}"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1964/41/section/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:59:34.825030+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."
}