Crofters Holdings (Scotland) Act 1886
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The Crofters Holdings (Scotland) Act 1886 (Scots Gaelic: Achd na Croitearachd 1886) is an Act o the Pairlament o the Unitit Kinrick that creatit legal defineetions o crofting parish an crofter, grantit siccarity o land tenure tae crofters an produced the first Crofters Commeession, a land coort whit ruled on disputes atween landlairds an crofters. The same coort ruled on whether paorishes war or warn't croftin pairishes. In mony weys the Act wis modelled on the Irish Land Acts o 1870 an 1881.[1] Bi grantin the crofters siccarity o tenure, the Act put an end tae the Hieland Clearances.[2]
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- ↑ MacColl, Allan W. (2006). Land, Faith and the Crofting Community: Christianity and Social Criticism in the Highlands of Scotland 1843–1893. Edinburgh University Press. p. 179. ISBN 978-0-7486-2674-8.
- ↑ Thomson: The Companion to Gaelic Scotland. 1983, p. 237
References[eedit | eedit soorce]
- Devine, Tom M. (1993). Clanship to Crofters' War: The Social Transformation of the Scottish Highlands. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
- Hunter, James (1976). The making of the crofting community (Revised edition 2000). Edinburgh: John Donald. ISBN 978-0-85976-537-4.
- Thomson, Derick S. (1983). The Companion to Gaelic Scotland. Àth nan Damh: Basil Blackwater Publisher. ISBN 978-0-631-12502-0.
- Wightman, Andy (2000). Scotland: Land and Power. Dùn Èideann: Luath Press. ISBN 978-0-946487-70-7.
- Bradley, Ian (December 1987). "'Having and Holding': The Highland Land War of the 1880s". History Today. 37 (12): 23–28.
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