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The Consolidated Fund is the government's general bank account at the Bank of England.

The money goes into what is called the consolidated fund, which is effectively the government's current account for general expenditure.

A spokesman for the Crown Office confirmed: "The property is now vested in the trustee for civil recovery, who will arrange for the house to be sold and the free proceeds, along with any interest in the term assurance policy, to be remitted to the Scottish Consolidated Fund."

By an ordinance issued in 1861 by the University Commissioners, appointed under the Act of 1858, a grant of £100 a year was made from the Consolidated Fund for an assistant in each of the departments of Humanity, Greek, Mathematics, and Natural Philosophy, and for two in the department of Chemistry; and McFarlane's position was somewhat improved.

The company is a consolidated fund of government-owned land acquired during the communist era, and the government is keen to disburse those assets.