To apply a sum out of the Consolidated Fund to the service of the year ending on the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, and to appropriate the Supplies granted in this Session of Parliament. Ordered to be brought in by The Chairman of Ways and Means, Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed, 31 July 1924. To be purchased directly from H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE at the following addresses: 1, St. Andrew's Crescent, Cardiff; or 120, George Street, Edinburgh; Amendment Bill, MEMORANDUM. The object of this Bill is to simplify conveyancing and the system of titles to land in Scotland by providing for the omission of unnecessary clauses, and for the shortening of deeds. The Bill is the result of the deliberations of a committee representative of the legal societies of Scotland, which was appointed about 12 years ago by the Lord Advocate to consider proposals for the further simplification of conveyancing in Scotland. Amendment Bill. ARRANGEMENT OF CLAUSES. Clause. 1. Short title, extent and commencement of Act. 2. Interpretation clause. 3. Disposition, &c. by person uninfeft. 4. Completion of title. 6. Notice of title equivalent to notarial instrument. 7. Assignation of unrecorded disposition or bond and disposition in security. 8. Description by reference and short reference to deed bearing more than one date. 9. Amendment of law as to reference to conditions of title. 10. Warrants of registration. 11. Consolidation of superiority and property. 12. Abolition and commutation of grain, &c. feu-duties. 13. Allocation of feu-duty. 14. Abolition of real warrandice. 15. Transmission of personal obligation. 16. Prescription following on title and possession. 17. Prescription of obligations, &c. 18. Notarial execution. 19. Applicability of forms prescribed by Act. 20. Ratification by married woman. 21. 22. 23. Terce and courtesy. Assimilation of law as regards legitim and jus relictæ, &c. Ground-annuals. 24. Registered leases. Assimilation of forms. 25. Form of bond and disposition in security. 26. Heritable creditors' remedies for recovery of feuduties and ground-annuals. 28. Assignation of bond and disposition in security. 29. Discharge of bond and disposition in security. 30. Restriction of bond and disposition in security. 31. Description of lands and deduction of title unnecessary in certain deeds relating to heritable securities. 32. Redemption of bond and disposition in security. Notice and procedure and evidence of service. 33. Notice calling up bond and disposition in security. 34. Service of notice. 35. Power to dispense with or shorten induciæ. 37. Contents of advertisement. 38. Periods of advertisement and newspapers. 39. Where exposure to sale to take place. 40. 41. Exposure in lots and apportionment of feu-duty. 42. Mode of disburdening land sold under power of sale in heritable security. 43. Act to apply to all heritable securities. 44. General Register of Inhibitions and Register of Adjudications to be combined; limitation of effect of entries therein. 45. Extract decree of reduction to be recorded. 46. Re-recording of deeds relative to leasehold subjects. 47. Duplicate plans may be retained with Register. 48. Saving clause. SCHEDULES. |