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A disposition in Scots law is a formal deed transferring ownership of corporeal heritable property. It acts as the conveyancing stage as the second of three stages required in order to voluntarily transfer ownership of land in Scotland.
The Contract (Scotland) Act 1997 altered this common law rule, so that the missives are no longer superseded by the disposition. [31] However, many conveyancers still include the use of a 2-year supersession clause in the Missives of Sale to ensure that contractual obligations come to end after 2 years rather than by negative prescription under ...
These special dispositions, which appear valid ex facie but are otherwise invalid, are called a non domino (i.e. from a non-owner) dispositions and the registration process of the a non domino disposition is known under the Land Registration (Scotland) Act 2012 [124] as a prescriptive claim, and the applicant is known as a prescriptive claimant.
Sharp v Thomson 1997 SC(HL) 66 is a United Kingdom House of Lords decision regarding the status of an unrecorded disposition in Scots Property Law. [1] The case was brought by Sharp as receivers for Albyn Construction Ltd, a building company who had sold a house in Aberdeen to the Thomsons, a brother and sister. Albyn had agreed to sell the ...
Scots property law governs the rules relating to property found in the legal jurisdiction of Scotland. In Scots law, the term 'property' does not solely describe land. Instead the term 'a person's property' is used when describing objects or 'things' (in Latin res) that an individual holds a right of ownership in. It is the rights that an ...
Feu was long the most common form of land tenure in Scotland. Conveyancing in Scots law was dominated by forms which were called feudal until the Scottish Parliament passed the Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000. [Note 1] The word is the Scots variant of fee.
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In Scots law, the case of Burmah Oil Company (Burma Trading) v The Lord Advocate [91] also made reference to a right to compensation payable to unlawful deprivations. In this case, a company registered in Scotland owned oil installations in Burma (today Myanmar). During the Second World War, Burma had been invaded by the Empire of Japan in 1942.