Erasures in Deeds (Scotland) Act 1836
1836 c.33
An Act to amend and regulate the law of Scotland as to erasures in instruments of sasine and of resignation ad remanentiam.
Short title “The Erasures in Deeds (Scotland) Act 1836” given by Short Titles Act 1896 (c. 14)
Act extended by Titles to Land Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1868 (c. 101), s. 144
Preamble omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision (No. 2) Act 1890 (c. 51)
Words of enactment repealed by Statute Law Revision (No. 2) Act 1890 (c. 51)
1C5No challenge of instruments of sasine or resignation ad remanentiam on account of erasures. Certain judgments and titles not to be affected.
No challenge of any instrument of sasine or resignation ad remanentiam shall hereafter receive effect, either by reduction or exception, on the ground that any part of the said instrument is written on an erasure, unless it shall be averred and proved that such erasure had been made for the purpose of fraud, or the record thereof is not conformable to the instrument as presented for registration: . . . F2 Provided also, that nothing herein contained shall extend or be construed to extend to instruments of sasine or resignation and sasine propriis manibus; provided also, that where any feudal title of property or title in security has been completed in order to remedy or supply defects arising from erasures in instruments of sasine, the validity of the said titles shall not be affected by any thing herein contained.
Act: repealed (prosp.) by 2000 asp 5, ss. 76(2), 77(2), Sch. 13 Pt. 1 (with ss. 58, 62, 75)