Entail Amendment (Scotland) Act 1868

14 Repeal of sect. 33 of Act of 10 G. 3. c. 51.U.K.

[F1So much of the thirty-third section of the Entail Improvement Act 1770 as provides that not more than thirty acres of arable land, nor more than one hundred acres of lands consisting of hills or other grounds incapable or improper by their nature for culture by the plough, of such entailed estates lying together in one place or plot shall be given in exchange, and that an equivalent in land contiguous to the entailed estate with which the exchange is to be made shall be received in place of the land given in exchange, is hereby repealed; and in lieu thereof it is enacted that] not more than three hundred acres of lands of such entailed estates lying together in one place or plot shall be given in exchange, and an equivalent in land shall be received in place of the land given in exchange; and the said section shall be read as if this last-mentioned enactment was contained therein.

Textual Amendments

F1Words repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1893 (c. 14) but reproduced for the purpose of construing the Act