The Dochfour Estate Act 1876
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1876 c. 2 |
| Year | 1876 |
[39 & 40 VICT.] The Dochfour Estate Act, 1876.
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2.]
CHAPTER 2.
An Act to authorise the sale of certain portions of the lands
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of Dochfour in the county of Inverness, being parts of the
entailed estates now held by Evan Baillie of Dochfour, and
to authorise the purchase of other lands to be entailed,
to excamb portions of said entailed estates in the parish of
Laggan for Dmiain, Ness Castle, and others in the parish of
Inverness; and for other purposes. [13th July 1876.]
W
HEREAS by a deed of entail dated the 19th and 26th days of Entaii
of
August in the year 1865, and recorded in the new general
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register of sasincs, &c. at Edinburgh the 2nd clay of September by trustees
thereafter, and in the register of entails the 28th day of November °f tlie 1;,l*(3
1865,
and
executed
by the now
deceased Colonel Hugh Duncan Baillie, Esq.,
Baillie
of
lledcastle
and
Tarradale, Evan Baillie
of
Dochfour, dated 19th
Matthew James Higgins
of
London, William Brodie
of
Brodie,
and
August 1865
John Baillie Baillie of Leys in the county of Inverness, herein-after
called Baillies' Trustees, the surviving, accepting, and acting
Trustees original and assumed of the deceased James Evan Baillie
of Kingussie and G-lenelg under his trust disposition and settlement
dated the 9th day of December 1846, and codicil thereto dated the
15th day of December 1847, and also under his deed of instructions
dated the 23rd day of December 1858, in reference to said settle-
ment and addition to said deed of instructions of date the 11th day
of May 1860, all recorded in the books of council and session the
30th day of July 1863, and also under a deed of assumption
executed by the three first-named Trustees in favour of the said
William Brodie and John Baillie Baillie, dated 11th and 12th May
1865,
Baillies' Trustees, after reciting that the said deceased James
Evan Baillie, by his said trust disposition and settlement, had
disponed to them for the purposes therein specified his lands and
estates of Kingussie and others therein mentioned, did thereby in
terms of the direction to them to that effect contained in the said
deed of instructions grant and dispone to the said Evan Baillie and
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The Dochfour Estate Act, 1876. [39 & 40 VICT.]
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1876.
Lands of
Brae Roy,
Laggan, and
Kingussie
included in
said entail.
Conditions,
prohibitions,
&c.
of said
entail.
the heirs male procreated or to be procreated of his body, and the
heirs male procreated of their bodies; whom failing, to the said
Hugh Duncan Baillie in liferent for his liferent use allenarly;
whom failing, to Henry James Baillie, son of the said Hugh
Duncan Baillie, in fee, and the heirs male procreated or to be pro-
created of his body, and the heirs male procreated of their bodies;
whom failing, to Major Anthony Martin, sometime of the late
Fourth Bengal Irregular Cavalry, now Lieutenant-Colonel on
half-
pay in the Indian Army, and the heirs male procreated or to be
procreated of his body, and the heirs male of their bodies; whom
failing, to Henry Arthur Skey, now Ensign in Her Majesty's 54th
Eoot, and the heirs male procreated of his body subsequent to the
date of the said deed of instructions, and the heirs male of their
bodies ; whom all failing, to and in favour of the said Evan Baillie,
his nearest heirs and assignees whomsoever, all and whole the
estates, lands, grazings, fishings, mills, mill lands, multures,
thirlage, and others therein mentioned and fully described :
And whereas all and whole the lands and estate of Brae Roy,
being the whole lands comprehended within the entail in the parish
of Kilmonivaig in Lochaber in the county of Inverness, and
described as Parcel Eirst in the Third Schedule to this Act annexed,
all and whole the lands of Garvamore, Sfcrathmashie, Garrygask, and
others, being the whole lands comprehended within the entail in the
parish of Laggan in the county of Inverness, and described as Parcel
Second in the Third Schedule to this Act annexed, and which are
herein-after referred to as "the Lands of Laggan," and the lands of
Ballachroan and others, described as Parcel Eourth in the said Third
Schedule as "Lands of Kingussie," all conform to their ancient
boundaries and marches, form parts of the lands and others granted
and disponed by Baillies' Trustees by the deed of entail before
recited:
And whereas the gross annual rental received from the lands and
estate of Brae Roy amounts to the sum of £1,445 as set forth in
the Eourth Schedule hereunto annexed, and the gross annual rental
received from the lands of Laggan amounts to the sum of
£3,975 15s. as set forth in the Eifth Schedule to this Act annexed :
And whereas the said lands and others so granted and disponed
by Baillies' Trustees were granted and disponed always under the
conditions, provision, and declaration, and clause of registration in
the register of entails written and contained in the said deed of
entail, and, inter alia, tinder the condition that the several lands,
estates, and others should be taken and possessed under said deed of
entail only, and upon no other title whatsoever, and that in all
writs,
transmissions, and investitures of the same there should be
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