Presumption of Life Limitation (Scotland) Act 1881
WHEREAS great hardships have arisen from the want of any limitation to the presumption of life as regards persons who have been absent from Scotland or have disappeared for long periods of years, and it is desirable that a limitation should be provided: Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: