Synopsis
A System Of The Forms Of Deeds Used In Scotland by Robert Bell is a practical Scottish legal treatise and manual detailing how entails (tailzie) regulate the disposition and transmission of feudal property. It documents the historical development, purpose, and the need for publicity and enforceable rules, including the 1685 act formalizing publicity, registration, and the strict order of succession. The work defines core terms and mechanisms—entail (tailzie), irritant and resolutive clauses, sasine and registration, lifereents, jointures, and provisions for wives and children—and presents a structured sequence of chapters on deeds to constitute an entail, renewals, and administration, with additional sections on related registrations. It is rich in illustrative drafting forms, including simple entailed estates, entailed marriages, trustee entails, marriage-contract linked entitlements, renewal and substitution, and the consolidation of superiority. The tone is practical and formula-driven, intended for conveyancers, notaries, and legal officers working in Scotland's feudal property regime, with reference to early 19th-century editions and the legal processes of sasine, charters, and service before the Macers.
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.