Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003

{{Short description|Devolved Scottish legislation}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2019}}

{{Infobox UK legislation

|short_title = Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003

|type = Act

|parliament = Scottish Parliament

|long_title = An Act of the Scottish Parliament to make further provision as respects real burdens, servitudes and certain other obligations affecting land; to amend the law relating to the ranking of standard securities; and for connected purposes.

|statute_book_chapter = 2003 asp 9

|introduced_by =

|territorial_extent = Scotland

|royal_assent = 3 April 2003

|commencement = 28 November 2004

|repeal_date =

|amendments =

|related_legislation = {{ubli|Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000|Tenements (Scotland) Act 2004}}

|repealing_legislation =

|replaces = {{ubli|Redemptions Act 1661}}

|status = Current

|original_text = http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2003/9/enacted

|revised_text = http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2003/9/contents

|legislation_history =

|}}

The Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9) is an Act of the Scottish Parliament. It came into force on 28 November 2004, and is one element of a three part land reform abolishing feudal tenure and modernising Scottish property law, the other two elements being the Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 and Tenements (Scotland) Act 2004 which came into effect on the same date.{{cite web|last1=Elliot|first1=Alison|last2=Watt|first2=John|last3=Ian|first3=Cooke|last4=Taylor|first4=Pip|title=The Land of Scotland and the Common Good: Report of the Land Reform Review Group|url=http://www.gov.scot/Resource/0045/00451087.pdf|publisher=The Scottish Government|accessdate=4 March 2017|page=142|language=English|date=2014}}

The legislation primarily relates to real burdens, a key aspect of property law in Scotland, and defines them in section 1 of the Act as "an encumbrance on land constituted in favour of the owner of other land in that person’s capacity as owner of that other land".{{cite web|title=Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003|url=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2003/9/pdfs/asp_20030009_en.pdf|accessdate=4 March 2017|pages=1}} Section 2 of the Act specifies that a real burden must involve an obligation either to do something, or to refrain from doing something, relating to the property in question. The act provides a legal basis for real burdens in light of the abolition of feudal tenure.