BobH,
the primary issue, as I understand it, is that in the UK, and especially within the confines of Scotland, Lairdship (as well as the right to display arms) is strictly regulated by the Lord Lyon.
In the US anyone can 'self-grant' arms and register them with any number of non-legal entities, or even in foreign countries. In Scotland, it's the Lyon or NOTHING, so selling (or rather, not selling, but apparently pretending to sell) land
with the idea that you can become a "Laird" of said land by not-exactly-owning a square foot of turf becomes a legal issue.

Cute, sure, as a joke. If the funds go to actual conservancy, all the better. But it should be sold as-is rather than vending the illusion of Laird-hood.

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