Cadastral map Definition

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What does Cadastral map mean?

The cadastral map is a map of Scotland showing the totality of registered real rights in land. It consists of cadastral units, which each represent a single registered plot of land. Cadastral units include geospatial data, including rights and burdens pertaining to each registered plot. All applications to register an unregistered plot of land must sufficiently describe that plot for the registers of scotland to delineate it on the cadastral map. See Registers of Scotland—the cadastral map.

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A guide to land registration and the Sasine Register in Scotland

A guide to land registration and the Sasine Register in Scotland Registers of Scotland (RoS) Registers of Scotland (RoS) is the public body responsible for looking after a range of registers, most notably the Register of Sasines (Sasine Register) and the Land Register of Scotland (Land Register) which involve interests in land. It is headed up by the Keeper of the Registers of Scotland, see: Functions of the Keeper of the Registers of Scotland: Stair Memorial Encyclopaedia [17]. Sasine Register The Sasine Register was established in 1617 by the Registration Act 1617 and is a public record of deeds relating to land in Scotland. Its purpose was to provide protection to rights in land by allowing such rights to be publicly recorded. The register is administered on a regional basis with deeds relating to rights in property being registered in the appropriate county register. Indexes of property and individuals were established allowing a degree of searching to be carried out to identify specific deeds which had been recorded. In...

Investigating title in Scotland—searches and enquiries—the basics

Investigating title in Scotland—searches and enquiries—the basics Searches are an essential part of the examination of any heritable title in Scotland and no conveyance can safely settle without them. The content of a search is usually from a public record or register (eg Land Register, Register of Sasines, Register of Inhibitions, Companies House and where appropriate Local Authorities) although it is often augmented with data collected from a variety of sources. Searching is a specialised, exacting and highly technical exercise which, since the mid-19th century, the legal profession has been happy to leave to professional searchers and rely implicitly on their expertise. Searches are usually requested by the seller’s solicitor. It is usual practice for the searches to be ordered early in the transaction to allow time to resolve any adverse matters which are disclosed. Certain searches will need to be current at the date of the transaction so updates of these searches are ordered immediately before settlement. Standard pre-registration searches The nature of the standard...

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Property weekly highlights—27 January 2022

This week's edition of Property weekly highlights includes: the latest building safety developments and the latest on the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill, more on the Bath Rugby v Greenwood case on restrictive covenants and another case on valuation under the Electronic Communications Code.

Private Client weekly highlights—27 January 2022

This week’s edition of Private Client highlights includes: (1) Walker Books trusts (Goodrich v AB), an important decision concerning the construction of settlements created prior to the Human Rights Act 1998, the Civil Partnership Act 2004 and the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013; (2) The launch of a new mental capacity guidance website; (3) Chandler (as executor of the estate of Concetta Chandler, deceased) v Lombardi, where the void transfer of property by an attorney prompted rectification of the Land Register; (4) Apple’s new Digital Legacy feature; (5) HM Attorney General v Zedra Fiduciary Services (UK) Ltd, which held that a charitable trust should be applied to reduce the National Debt; (6) R v Asplin, which concerned pensions in confiscation proceedings; (7) Scottish Law Commission publishes its report on Land Reform and Taxation, and (8) Estate of the late J D Hanson, in which the Jersey court made a multi-million fraud judgment against a trustee who misappropriated trust assets.

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