Registration Act 1698 (repealed)

Our Soveraign Lord considering that it will be of great ease and advantage to the Leidges that Probative Writs be allowed to be Registrat albeit they want a Clause of Registration Therefore His Majestie with advyce and consent of the Estates of Parliament Statutes and Ordains that it shall be lawfull and leisum to Registrat for Conservation all Chartors granted by Subjects Dispositions Bonds Contracts Tacks Reversions and all other Probative Writs in any publict authentick Register that is competent albeit the saids Writs want a Clause of Registration . . . F2 and the Extract to make intire faith in all Cases in the same manner as if the saids Writs had been Registrat by vertue of a Clause of Registration except in the case of Improbations