11 Representation in, and division of, legitim
Succession (Scotland) Act 1964 (1964 c 41) | Legislation

11  Representation in, and division of, legitim

(1)     Subject to the next following subsection, where a person (hereinafter in this section referred to as “the deceased”) dies [in circumstances where a child who has failed to survive the deceased] has left issue who survive the deceased, and the child would, if he had survived the deceased, have been entitled [by virtue of section 10A of this Act or of any other enactment or of any rule of law] to legitim out of the deceased's estate, such issue shall have the like right to legitim as the child would have had if he had survived the deceased.

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(2)     If, by virtue

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