Entail Act 1685

An 1685 Act of the Parliament of Scotland which codified tailzies and, in 1896,^[2] was retitled the Entail Act 1685 (c. 26) [12mo ed: c. 22], was one of the Entail Acts.^[3] It allowed entail settling heritable property inalienably on a specified line of heirs, restricting the rights of heirs.^[4]

Entail Act 1685^[1]

Act of Parliament
Parliament of Scotland
Long title	An Act concerning tailzies.[2]
Citation	1685 c. 26 (12mo ed: c. 22)
Dates
Royal assent	30 May 1685
Other legislation
Repealed by	Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000
Status: Repealed
Revised text of statute as amended

This act was disapplied by section 2 of the Entail (Scotland) Act 1914.

The whole act was repealed by sections 76(2) of, and Part I of Schedule 13 to, the Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 on 28 November 2004.^[5] See also sections 58, 62 and 75.