Conveyancing (Scotland) Act 1924

17 Prescription of obligations, and c

(1) The period of twenty years shall be substituted for the period of forty years in that portion of the Act of the Parliament of Scotland, 1617, cap. 12, which begins with the words " and sic like His Majesty with advise foresaid " and ends with the words " as said is " inclusive; and in reckoning the period of prescription under the said portion of the said Act of 1617, as amended by this section, no deduction or allowance shall be made on account of the years of minority or less age of those against whom the prescription is used and objected or of any period during which any person against whom the prescription is used and objected was under legal disability.

(2) The provisions of this section shall have no application to and shall not be construed so as to alter or affect the existing law relating to the period of disuse necessary to involve the extinction of any servitude or of any public right of way or other public right.

(3) The provisions of this section shall not be pleadable to any effect in any action in dependence at the commencement of this Act or in any action which shall be commenced prior to the appointed day, or with regard to any period of twenty years completed prior to the appointed day.