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Conveyancing (Scotland) Act 1874
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- s. 32 words repealed by 2000 asp 5 Sch. 12 para. 9(8) Sch. 13 Pt. 1 (This amendment has not been applied to legislation.gov.uk. Sch. 12 para. 9(8) and entry in Sch. 13 repealed (4.4.2003) by 2003 asp 9, ss. 128, 129(5), Sch. 15 (with ss. 119, 121))
- Sch. H word repealed by 2000 asp 5 Sch. 12 para. 9(21) Sch. 13 Pt. 1 (This amendment has not been applied to legislation.gov.uk. Sch. 12 para. 9(21) and entry in Sch. 13 repealed (4.4.2003) by 2003 asp 9, ss. 128, 129(5), Sch. 15 (with ss. 119, 121))
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.
5. Compositions payable by corporations or trustees or persons having separate interests.
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20. Commutation of carriages and services by agreement; or by sheriff.
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24. Where feu rights stipulating or inferring casualties are contracted to be granted.
25. Distinction between burgage and feu abolished. Registration of writs in burgh register. Provisions for lands in Paisley held by booking tenure.
29. General dispositions forming links of series of titles not objectionable on certain grounds.
30. Conveyances and discharges of real burdens. Real burdens effectual in competition from date of recording; mode of completing title to real burdens.
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32. Reservations, conditions, and covenants, affecting lands may be imported by reference.
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41. One notary or justice of the peace and two witnesses to be sufficient where party cannot write.
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44. Provisions for the case of a person appointed by the court to administer a trust.
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.
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47. Securities upon land, and relative personal obligations, shall transmit against heirs and disponees.
48. Provisions for disencumbering lands sold under heritable securities when no surplus emerges.
49. Provision for disencumbering lands of heritable security.
50. Form and effect of assigning right of relief or other right affecting land.
51. Probate equivalent to will or extract for completing title.
53. Form of completing title to heritable securities under a general disposition.
54. Recorded deed or instrument unchallengeable on certain grounds.
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57.†Certain offices abolished, and the duties of the Sheriff of Chancery, &c. enlarged.
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.
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.
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64. Section 127 of last-recited Act repealed. Executor nominate or disponee mortis causa may complete title by notarial instrument.
65. Section 129 of last-recited Act repealed. Adjudgers may complete their title by recording abbreviate or extract decree of adjudication.
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Form of Notice to be given to a Superior of Change of Ownership
Form of Memorandum constituting a Feu-duty or additional Feu-duty
Form of Instrument in Favour of a General Disponee or his Assignee in right of an Heritable Security
Clause of Reference to a Description of Land contained in a prior Conveyance, Deed, or Instrument
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