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Bankruptcy and Diligence etc. (Scotland) Act 2007

Section 161 – Prescription of right to reduce transactions in breach of inhibition

439.This section removes any doubt that the 20 year period of long negative prescription (set out in section 8(1) of the Prescription and Limitation (Scotland) Act 1973) applies to the right of an inhibitor to have a deed, granted in breach of an inhibition, reduced.

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