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Conveyancing (Scotland) Acts (1874 and 1879) Amendment Act 1887

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Contents: 7 provisions
  1. Title and introductory text
  2. 1 Limitation of liability of trustees for casualties.
  3. 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  4. 3 Novodamus not challengeable because lands not resigned into superior’s hands.
  5. 4 Decree of irritancy not final till extract recorded.
  6. 5 Letters of administration of will, &c. equivalent to will for authorization of notary to expede instrument.
  7. 6 Short title.

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7 provisions

Title and introductory text

Conveyancing (Scotland) Acts (1874 and 1879) Amendment Act 1887 1887 c.69 An Act to amend the Conveyancing (Scotland) Act, 1874, and the Conveyancing (Scotland) Act (1874) Amendment Act, 1879. [16th September 1887]

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1 Limitation of liability of trustees for casualties.

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3 Novodamus not challengeable because lands not resigned into superior’s hands.

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4 Decree of irritancy not final till extract recorded.

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5 Letters of administration of will, &c. equivalent to will for authorization of notary to expede instrument.

... letters of administration of the will or other testamentary settlement of a person deceased issued by any Court of Probate in England or in Ireland, or in any British colony or dependency, or an exemplification of such letters of administration, shall for the purpose of ... completing a title to any land or real right in land or to any heritable security, be held to be equivalent to and as effectual as the production to such notary of the will or settlement itself, or of an extract thereof from the books of Council and Session....

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6 Short title.

This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Conveyancing (Scotland) Acts (1874 and 1879) Amendment Act, 1887.

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