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Conveyancing (Scotland) Act 1924
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8 Description by reference and short reference to deed bearing more than one date. S
(1)It shall be no objection to a description by reference to a particular description of land in accordance with section sixty-one of the M1Conveyancing (Scotland) Act, 1874, that the description referred to contains a description by reference of a larger piece of land of which the land particularly described forms part, and Schedule O annexed to the said Act of 1874 is hereby repealed and Schedule D to this Act is substituted therefor: The provisions of this section shall be retrospective.
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(3)In specifying any writ recorded in any Register of Sasines, it shall be competent for the better identification of such writ, to state the number of the volume or book of the register in which, and of the folio on which, the same has been recorded; but it shall be no objection to the specification of any writ that such volume or book and folio or either of them are not stated or are misstated, provided that such specification is sufficient for the identification of such writ.
(4)Where any deed, instrument, or writing bearing more than one date is [F2for any purpose] specified or referred to in any other deed, instrument, or writing, it shall be no objection to such specification or reference that only the first date is given with the addition of the words “and subsequent date” (or “dates”).
[F3(5)Note 1 to Schedule D to this Act shall apply to a reference competently made to any deed for reservations, real burdens, conditions, provisions, limitations, obligations and stipulations affecting lands and to the form of such reference given in [F4schedule 1 to the Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9)].]
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F1S. 8(2) repealed (28.11.2004) by Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 5), ss. 71, 77(2), sch. 12 para. 15(7), sch. 13 Pt. 1 (with ss. 58, 62, 75); S.S.I. 2003/456, art. 2
F2Words inserted by Conveyancing Amendment (Scotland) Act 1938 (c. 24), s. 2(1)(a)
F3S. 8(5) added by Conveyancing Amendment (Scotland) Act 1938 (c. 24), s. 2(1)(b)
F4Words in s. 8(5) substituted (28.11.2004) by Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9), ss. 122(1), 129(2), sch. 14 para. 3(2) (with ss. 119, 121) (see S.S.I. 2003/456, art. 2)
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C1S. 8 excluded by Land Registration (Scotland) Act 1979 (c. 33, SIF 31:3), s. 15(1)
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