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Kenneth G C Reid and George Lidderdale Gretton, Land Registration

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DOI10.3366/elr.2017.0445
Published date01 September 2017
Date01 September 2017
Pages456-458

8 December 2014 saw the coming into force of the Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012, reforming the rules of land registration in Scotland as well as formalising many of the Keeper's practices which had developed during the period in which the Land Registration (Scotland) Act 1979 was in effect. Now the two law commissioners who led the reform project have produced the first full-length guide to the 2012 Act.

The first matter on which the authors should be congratulated is the relative brevity of their treatment. Weighing in at 346 pages of text, the book provides a succinct guide to a statute of 124 sections in a directed manner. This saves the researcher from approaching the Scottish Law Commission's and Scottish Government's literature which spans well over a thousand pages without a clear plan.

The authors provide a tour round the key features of the 2012 Act, including the formalised structure of the Land Register, the Cadastral Map, Advance Notices, rectification and the Keeper's warranty. However, in typical Gretton and Reid manner, this is more than a simple commentary on the terms of the 2012 Act or an annotated statute book (although copies of the 2012 Act and the Land Register Rules etc. (Scotland) Regulations 2014 are included as appendices). The book is true to Professor Gretton's view that “there is nothing as practical as a good theory” and this shows throughout the text, particularly in the earliest chapters. Chapters one to three...

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