Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012

Valid from 08/12/2014

87Acquisition from representative of disponer without valid titleS

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(1)Section 86 also applies where a person (“P”), who is not entered in the proprietorship section of the title sheet as proprietor but who would have power to dispone the land—

(a)were A the proprietor, or

(b)(where A has died) had A been the proprietor,

purports to dispone it.

(2)For the purposes of section 86, possession of the plot of land by P is to be treated as if it were possession of the land by A.