Caledonia Land Deed - Legal
The Deed is a legal document that confers ownership of one square inch
of the companys real estate in Nethy Bridge.
Of course, owners rights in such a small piece of land are purely symbolic: the company
reserves its rights as principal owner, and in return undertakes to maintain the land
and pay all dues.
The full terms of sale have been prepared by our legal adviser MacRoberts,
one of Scotlands top law firms. These terms are incorporated
in full in the Deed indeed
their provenance makes interesting reading in English and Gaelic.
The Deed is completed by the insertion of Owners name and signature in
the spaces provided. It truly is a unique
Scottish gift.
Caledonia Land Deed - The Legal Terms as Printed on the Deed
WE, CALEDONIA SQUARE INCH LAND LIMITED, incorporated
under the Companies Acts (Scottish Company Number SC231051),
and having our Registered Office at Excel House,
30 Semple Street, Edinburgh, heritable proprietors of the subjects hereinafter
disponed (we and our successors in the superiority thereof being
hereinafter called "the Company")
IN CONSIDERATION of the prestations hereinafter specified, hereby SELL and in feu farm
DISPONE to the Purchaser (hereinafter called "the Purchaser", whose particulars are
set out below), his executors and assignees, ALL and WHOLE one Square Inch of ALL and
WHOLE that area of ground comprising 1.109 hectares at Causar, Nethy Bridge, Morayshire
which area of ground forms part and portion of ALL and WHOLE that area or piece of ground
lying in the Parishes of Abernethy and Cromdale and Counties of Inverness and Moray extending
to Twenty one thousand, Three hundred and eighty acres or thereby Imperial Standard Measure
and being the area or piece of ground more particularly described in and delineated in
red and coloured pink on the plan annexed and signed as relative to the Disposition
and Deed of Trust by the Right Honourable Nina Caroline Ogilvy Grant, Countess
of Seafield in favour of herself and Others as Trustees therein mentioned dated
Fifteenth and recorded in the Division of the General Register of Sasines applicable
to the Counties of Moray and Inverness for publication and also as in the Books of Council
and Session for preservation on Nineteenth both days of January, Nineteen Hundred
and Fifty Four (which subjects are hereinafter referred to as "the Land") together
with the pertinents thereof and our whole right, title and interest,
present and future in
and to the dominium utile but under the express declaration that no rights
of access of any kind, whether pedestrian or vehicular, are hereby
granted;
BUT the Land hereby disponed is so disponed ALWAYS WITH AND UNDER insofar
as valid, subsisting and applicable to the Land and not implemented,
departed from or discharged the
reservations, burdens, conditions, obligations and others specified in
the title deeds thereof and as hereinafter contained (which so far as
hereinafter contained are hereinafter
referred to as "the Sale Conditions"):-
(FIRST) The Purchaser acknowledges that his purchase of the Land is for the purpose of
novelty only. (SECOND) The Purchaser shall not be entitled to record this deed in the Register
of Sasines or register it in the Land Register of Scotland, the Books of Council and Session
or any other public register. (THIRD) The Purchaser shall not be entitled to take entry to
the Land, to use the Land for any purpose whatsoever, to sell or otherwise dispose of the
Land or to exercise any rights of ownership in relation to the Land. (FOURTH) The Purchaser
for himself and his executors and assignees hereby irrevocably appoints the Company his attorney
to manage and otherwise deal with the Land, including its sale or rent, with full power to sign
all documents necessary to perfect such transactions. (FIFTH) This deed shall be governed by the
Law of Scotland.
Declaring that if the Purchaser contravenes or fails to implement any of the Sale Conditions
these presents and all that may have followed thereon shall in the option of the Company become
null and void and the Purchaser shall forfeit his right, title and interest, in and to the
Land hereby disponed which with all buildings thereon shall revert and belong to the Company
free and disencumbered of all burdens as if these presents had not been granted; All of which
Sale Conditions are hereby declared to be real burdens and conditions upon and affecting the
Land hereby disponed and are appointed to be inserted in any infeftment that may follow hereon
and inserted or validly referred to in all future writs, transmissions or investitures of the
Land or any part thereof on pain of nullity; To be holden the Land of and under us and our
successors as immediate lawful superiors thereof in feu farm, fee and heritage forever.