8. A New Era in Conveyancing: Advance Notices and the Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012

For decades, property lawyers in jurisdictions other than Scotland expressed astonishment that Scottish solicitors effectively underwrote their seller client’s obligation to a purchaser to provide, after settlement, records in the property and personal registers that would be clear of any entry, deed, decree or diligence, which was either prejudicial to the validity of, or was an encumbrance on, the seller’s title to the property. Solicitors did this by granting to the purchaser, by way of fo..