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Laird (earlier lard) is the now-standard Scots pronunciation (and phonetic spelling) of the word that is pronounced and spelled in standard English as lord. [3] As can be seen in the Middle English version of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, [4] specifically in the Reeve's Tale, Northern Middle English had a where Southern Middle English had o, a difference still found in standard English two and ...
The definition of "clearance" (as it relates to the Highland Clearances) is debatable. The term was not in common use during much of the clearances; landowners, their factors and other estate staff tended, until the 1840s, to use the word "removal" to refer to the eviction of tenants.
The Scottish Government Land Reform Review Group's The land of Scotland and the common good: report (2004) succinctly summarises common good property: "Section 14: Common Good Lands. 1. A special type of property owned by local authorities in Scotland, which is legally distinct from all the other property which they own, is Common Good Funds ...
Land in Scots law is a broader concept than the traditional meaning of land and is taken ... recommended by the Scottish Law Commission's Report on Land ...
Scottish women landowners (1 C, 2 P) F. Scottish feudal barons (3 C, 19 P) L. Lairds (7 C, 75 P) Scottish landlords (2 P) Pages in category "Scottish ...
A landowner is the holder of the estate in land with the most extensive and exclusive rights of ownership over the territory, simply put, the owner of land.
The gentry were aristocratic landowners who were not peers. According to historian G. E. Mingay, the gentry were landowners whose wealth "made possible a certain kind of education, a standard of comfort, and a degree of leisure and a common interest in ways of spending it". Leisure distinguished gentry from businessmen who gained their wealth ...
A tacksman (Scottish Gaelic: Fear-Taic, meaning "supporting man"; most common Scots spelling: takisman) [1] [2] [3] was a landholder of intermediate legal and social status in Scottish Highland society.