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Conveyancing (Scotland) Act 1874 (c. 94)

Conveyancing (Scotland) Act 1874 1874 CHAPTER 94 37 and 38 Vict An Act to amend the law relating to land rights and conveyancing, and to facilitate the transfer of land, in Scotland. [7th August 1874]

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Table of Content

1. Short title. S

2. Commencement of Act. S

3. Interpretation. S

4. Renewal of investiture abolished. Infeftment to imply entry with superior. Implied entry not to affect rights of superiors to feu-duties, &c. Action in lieu of a declarator of non-entry. S

5. Compositions payable by corporations or trustees or persons having separate interests. S

6. Consolidation of superiority with property. S

7. Consolidation not to affect or extend superior’s rights. S

8. Memorandum of allocation of feu-duty. S

9. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F9 S

14. Legal remedies to prevent entry preserved. S

15. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F11 S

18. Entails not to bar redemption. S

19. Redemption of casualties by a mid-superior. S

20. Commutation of carriages and services by agreement; or by sheriff. S

21. Commuted value to be feu-duty. Not barred by entails. S

22. Monopolies of superior’s agents annulled. S

23. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F12 S

24. Where feu rights stipulating or inferring casualties are contracted to be granted. S

25. Distinction between burgage and feu abolished. Registration of writs in burgh register. Provisions for lands in Paisley held by booking tenure. S

26. Form of conveyances. S

27. The word “dispone” unnecessary. S

28. Date of entry. S

29. General dispositions forming links of series of titles not objectionable on certain grounds. S

30. Conveyances and discharges of real burdens. Real burdens effectual in competition from date of recording; mode of completing title to real burdens. S

31. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F16 S

32. Reservations, conditions, and covenants, affecting lands may be imported by reference. S

33. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F18 S

34. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F19 S

35. Registration of a decree of division. S

36. Effect of decree of sale of glebe. S

37. Distinction between heritage and conquest abolished. S

38. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . U.K.

39. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S

40. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S

41. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . U.K.

42. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F28 S

43. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F29 S

44. Provisions for the case of a person appointed by the court to administer a trust. S

45. How title shall be completed when the holder of an office or proprietor is ex officio a trustee and his successor in office takes the trust. S

46. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F33 S

47. Securities upon land, and relative personal obligations, shall transmit against heirs and disponees. S

48. Provisions for disencumbering lands sold under heritable securities when no surplus emerges. S

49. Provision for disencumbering lands of heritable security. S

50. Form and effect of assigning right of relief or other right affecting land. S

51. Probate equivalent to will or extract for completing title. U.K.

52. Decrees of service unchallengeable on certain grounds. S

53. Form of completing title to heritable securities under a general disposition. S

54. Recorded deed or instrument unchallengeable on certain grounds. S

55. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F44 S

56. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F45 S

57. †Certain offices abolished, and the duties of the Sheriff of Chancery, &c. enlarged. S

58. Provisions as to Chancery office. S

59. Act shall apply to lands held of the Crown and Prince. S

60. Title to private estates of Her Majesty in Scotland. S

61. †Section 11 of Titles to Land Consolidation Act repealed; description of lands contained in recorded deeds may be inserted in subsequent writs by reference merely. Reference already made in recorded deed not challengeable if certain particulars correctly given. S

62. Section 62 of the Titles to Land Consolidation Act, 1868, and section 4 of the Titles to Land Consolidation Amendment Act, 1869, repealed. Effect of a decree of adjudication or sale. S

63. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F52 S

64. Section 127 of last-recited Act repealed. Executor nominate or disponee mortis causa may complete title by notarial instrument. S

65. Section 129 of last-recited Act repealed. Adjudgers may complete their title by recording abbreviate or extract decree of adjudication. S

66. Schedules to be part of Act. S

67. Repeal of Acts. &c. S

68. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F53 S

1. Short title. S

2. Commencement of Act. S

3. Interpretation. S

4. Renewal of investiture abolished. Infeftment to imply entry with superior. Implied entry not to affect rights of superiors to feu-duties, &c. Action in lieu of a declarator of non-entry. S

5. Compositions payable by corporations or trustees or persons having separate interests. S

6. Consolidation of superiority with property. S

7. Consolidation not to affect or extend superior’s rights. S

8. Memorandum of allocation of feu-duty. S

9. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F9 S

14. Legal remedies to prevent entry preserved. S

15. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F11 S

18. Entails not to bar redemption. S

19. Redemption of casualties by a mid-superior. S

20. Commutation of carriages and services by agreement; or by sheriff. S

21. Commuted value to be feu-duty. Not barred by entails. S

22. Monopolies of superior’s agents annulled. S

23. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F12 S

24. Where feu rights stipulating or inferring casualties are contracted to be granted. S

25. Distinction between burgage and feu abolished. Registration of writs in burgh register. Provisions for lands in Paisley held by booking tenure. S

26. Form of conveyances. S

27. The word “dispone” unnecessary. S

28. Date of entry. S

29. General dispositions forming links of series of titles not objectionable on certain grounds. S

30. Conveyances and discharges of real burdens. Real burdens effectual in competition from date of recording; mode of completing title to real burdens. S

31. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F16 S

32. Reservations, conditions, and covenants, affecting lands may be imported by reference. S

33. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F18 S

34. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F19 S

35. Registration of a decree of division. S

36. Effect of decree of sale of glebe. S

37. Distinction between heritage and conquest abolished. S

38. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . U.K.

39. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S

40. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S

41. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . U.K.

42. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F28 S

43. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F29 S

44. Provisions for the case of a person appointed by the court to administer a trust. S

45. How title shall be completed when the holder of an office or proprietor is ex officio a trustee and his successor in office takes the trust. S

46. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F33 S

47. Securities upon land, and relative personal obligations, shall transmit against heirs and disponees. S

48. Provisions for disencumbering lands sold under heritable securities when no surplus emerges. S

49. Provision for disencumbering lands of heritable security. S

50. Form and effect of assigning right of relief or other right affecting land. S

51. Probate equivalent to will or extract for completing title. U.K.

52. Decrees of service unchallengeable on certain grounds. S

53. Form of completing title to heritable securities under a general disposition. S

54. Recorded deed or instrument unchallengeable on certain grounds. S

55. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F44 S

56. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F45 S

57. †Certain offices abolished, and the duties of the Sheriff of Chancery, &c. enlarged. S

58. Provisions as to Chancery office. S

59. Act shall apply to lands held of the Crown and Prince. S

60. Title to private estates of Her Majesty in Scotland. S

62. Section 62 of the Titles to Land Consolidation Act, 1868, and section 4 of the Titles to Land Consolidation Amendment Act, 1869, repealed. Effect of a decree of adjudication or sale. S

63. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F52 S

64. Section 127 of last-recited Act repealed. Executor nominate or disponee mortis causa may complete title by notarial instrument. S

65. Section 129 of last-recited Act repealed. Adjudgers may complete their title by recording abbreviate or extract decree of adjudication. S

66. Schedules to be part of Act. S

67. Repeal of Acts. &c. S

68. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F53 S

Section 1

1. Short title. S

This Act may be cited for all purposes as “ The Conveyancing (Scotland) Act, 1874. ”

Section 2

2. Commencement of Act. S

This Act shall, except where otherwise provided, come into operation on the first day of October one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, which date is herein-after referred to as the commencement of this Act.

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1. Short title. S

2. Commencement of Act. S

Conveyancing (Scotland) Act 1874 (c. 94)

1. Short title. S

2. Commencement of Act. S