Confirmation of Executors (Scotland) Act 1858

XIV Probate or Letters of Administration produced in Commissary-Court and certified, to have Effect of Confirmation.

From and after the Date aforesaid, when any Probate or Letters of Administration to be granted by the Court of Probate in England to the Executor or Administrator of a Person who shall be therein, or by any Note or Memorandum written thereon signed by the proper Officer, stated to have died domiciled in England, or by the Court of Probate in Ireland to the Executor or Administrator of a Person who shall in like Manner be stated to have died domiciled in Ireland, shall be produced in the Commissary Court of the County of Edinburgh, and a Copy thereof deposited with the Commissary Clerk of the said Court; the Commissary Clerk shall endorse or write on the Back or Face of such Grant a Certificate in the Form as near as may be of the Schedule (F.) hereunto annexed; and such Probate or Letters of Administration, being duly stamped, shall be of the like Force and Effect and have the same Operation in Scotland as if a Confirmation had been granted by the said Court.