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  2. Disposition (Scots law) - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Sharp v Thomson - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Missives of Sale (Scots law) - Wikipedia

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    The Contract (Scotland) Act 1997 altered this common law rule, so that the missives are no longer superseded by the disposition.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 ...

  5. Scots property law - Wikipedia

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    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 owners

  6. Compulsory purchase laws in Scotland - Wikipedia

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    Compulsory purchase are powers to obtain land in Scotland that were traditionally available to certain public bodies in Scots law.Scots law classifies compulsory purchase as an involuntary transfer of land, as the owner of the corporeal heritable property (land) does not consent to the transfer of ownership.

  7. Stair Memorial Encyclopaedia - Wikipedia

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    The complete set consists of over 130 titles in 25 volumes and Reissue binders. It covers the whole spectrum of Scots law, from Administrative Law, through Criminal Law, Obligations and Property, to Wills and Succession. Stair Memorial Encyclopaedia is also available as a searchable electronic archive on a paid subscription basis.

  8. Lockerbie Bombing: What happened on the day Pan Am ... - AOL

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    The lives of 270 people were claimed after a bomb exploded on board Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland in 1988 ... Megrahi is found guilty of murder after the historic trial under Scottish law in the ...

  9. Feu (land tenure) - Wikipedia

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    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.