Souvenir Title Plots, Fake Titles, Laird, Lord and Lady

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This new guidance on those souvenir title plots, issued by the Scottish Land Register in the latest issue of the Journal of the Law Society of Scotland may be of interest to some of our Members.
In short, title to small souvenir plots cannot be registered in the Land Register, and without registration the buyer has no real rights which would be enforceable in law.
The titles Lord and Lady within Scotland apply only to peers.
The Laird is a description more usually applied to the PRINCIPAL landowner in the area.
Ownership of a souvenir plot is not going to assist you in obtaining a Grant of Arms from the Lord Lyon.
We have at least three Lairds of Lochaber and one Lady of Lochaber among our Members.
These souvenir title plots are worth no more than you pay for them and do not give you any legally enforceable rights.
Calling yourself Lord, Lady or Laird while here in Scotland is inappropriate but if you want to use the title elsewhere in the world or on the internet by all means please continue to do so, it is all harmless fun and the vast majority of Scots would have no objections.