Records of land transactions
Sasines
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasine
A Register of Sasines was created in every locality by the Registration Act 1617. It functions to this day on a national level as the General Register of Sasines.
General Register of Sasines
This is a register of transactions (deeds of sale, mortgages etc.) relating to land. It is being progressively superseded by the Land Register. Properties transfer to the Land Register upon sale.
Sasine in Scots law is the delivery of feudal property, typically land.
Feudal property means immovable property, and includes everything that naturally goes with the property. For land, that would include such things as buildings, trees, and underground minerals. A superior (e.g., a heritor) might authorise his agent or factor to give possession of his property to someone else through a document known as a "precept of sasine".
Over time, sasine came to be used in common speech as a reference to the deed or document recording the transfer, rather than to the transfer itself. Hence phrases such as "to give sasines", "to deliver sasines", "to receive sasines", "to take sasines".
Alternate spellings: seizin, seisin, sasin, seasin, sasing, seasing, sesin, seasin, sesine, seasine, saisine
Land Register
It is now possible to search the modern land register https://scotlis.ros.gov.uk/property-search
Land Register of Scotland
This is a map-based register established by the Land Registration (Scotland) Act 1979 eventually to replace the Sasine Register. It is a register of the title rather than a register of deeds. Now in operation throughout the whole of Scotland, First Registration in the Land Register involves a one-off examination of the relevant title deeds. A Title Sheet is created and guaranteed by the state.
Land and property searches
Information on the registers : https://www.ros.gov.uk/support/simple-guides/land-and-property-searches
Croft Register
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