# Titles to Land Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1868, Section 142: Recording of conveyances in the register of sasines authorized.

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

All conveyances and deeds ... authorized to be recorded in the register of sasines, may ... be recorded at any time in the life of the person on whose behalf the application for registration of such conveyance or deed is made and on such application the conveyance or deed shall be presented for registration and when presented for registration shall be forthwith shortly registered in the minute books of the said register in common form, and shall with all due despatch be fully registered in the register books, and thereafter redelivered to the parties with certificates of due registration thereon, which shall specify the date of presentation, and the book and folios in which the engrossment has been made ... and shall be probative of such registration, and when so registered shall in competition be preferable according to the date of registration, and the date of entry in the minute book shall be held to be the date of registration: Provided, that where two or more applications for registration of deeds or conveyances ... shall be received by the keeper of the register of sasines on the same day, the entries ... in the presentment book and minute book for the conveyances or deeds in respect of which such applications are made shall be of the same year, month, and day, and such deeds and conveyances shall be deemed and taken to be presented and registered contemporaneously; ...

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/31-32/101/section/142 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/titles-to-land-consolidation-scotland-act-1868/section-142
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