{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/titles-to-land-consolidation-scotland-act-1868/section-26A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/titles-to-land-consolidation-scotland-act-1868/section-26A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/31-32/101",
  "legislation_title": "Titles to Land Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1868",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/titles-to-land-consolidation-scotland-act-1868",
  "path": "section/26A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "26A",
  "heading": "Application for declarator of succession as heir in general or to specified lands",
  "text": "On an application being made by any person having an interest, the Sheriff of Chancery may, if satisfied that—\n(a) such deceased person as may be specified in the application died before 10th September 1964 and that person either—\n(i) was domiciled in Scotland at the date of his death; or\n(ii) was the owner of lands situated in Scotland to which the application relates; and\n(b) the applicant, or as the case may be such person as may be specified in the application, has succeeded as heir to that deceased, and is either—\n(i) heir in general; or\n(ii) heir to such lands as may be specified in the application,\ngrant declarator that the applicant, or as the case may be such person as may be specified in the declarator, is the heir in general or heir to the lands so specified.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 26A-26C inserted (28.11.2004) by Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 5), ss. 68, 71, 77(2) (with ss. 58, 62, 75); S.S.I. 2003/456, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/31-32/101/section/26A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:57:26.266482+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."
}