Amendment Bill. [AS AMENDED BY THE STANDING COMMITTEE ON SCOTTISH BILLS.] 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. [AS AMENDED BY THE STANDING COMMITTEE ON SCOTTISH BILLS.] 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. 10. Amendment of law as to reference to conditions of title. Warrants of registration. 11. Consolidation of superiority and property. 12. 13. Abolition and commutation of grain, &c. feu-duties. 14. Abolition of real warrandice. 15. Transmission of personal obligation. 16. Prescription following on title and possession. Prescription of obligations, &c. 17. 25. 26. Ground-annuals. Registered leases. Assimilation of forms. Form of bond and disposition in security. Heritable creditors' remedies for recovery of feuduties and ground-annuals. Clause. Amendment. 27. Restriction of agent's lien. 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. Notice calling up bond and disposition in security. 34. Service of notice. 33. 35. Power to dispense with or shorten induciæ. 36. Advertisement. 37. Contents of advertisement. 38. Periods of advertisement and newspapers. 39. Where exposure to sale to take place. 40. Exposure in lots and apportionment of feu-duty. 41. Purchasers protected. 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. Provision for termination of perpetual trusts of moveables. 46. Extract decree of reduction to be recorded. 47. Re-recording of deeds relative to leasehold subjects. 48. Duplicate plans may be retained with Register. 49. Saving clause. SCHEDULES. Amendment. A BILL [AS AMENDED BY THE STANDING COMMITTEE ON ΤΟ Amend the Law of Conveyancing in Scotland. E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, 5 as follows: A.D. 1924. 1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Conveyancing Short title, (Scotland) Act, 1924. extent and commence. (2) This Act shall, except where otherwise provided, ment of come into operation on the first day of January, nineteen Act. 10 hundred and twenty-five. (3) This Act shall apply to Scotland only. 2. The words and expressions after mentioned or Interpretareferred to shall have the several meanings hereby tion clause. assigned to them, unless there be something in the subject 15 or context repugnant to such construction (that is to 20 25 say) : (1) The words and expressions used in this Act and (a) "Land" or "lands" shall not include (b) "Heritable securities" and "securities " shall include real burdens and securities by |