A Modern Scottish View of Clans (and Gathering)

[gilmore]

...Even although people were able to buy land and build a house on it, they remained as feudal vassals to the feudal superior and had to pay an annual charge. Bettyhill in Sutherlansd was named after Elizabeth, Duchess of Sutherland and was one of the places displaced clansmen were relocated to from the glens to make way for sheep. As I said this mediaeval system persisted until the 1970's ... Scotland has since progressed by abolishing this relic of feudalism (even though we had to pay off the superior) ...

My understanding is that it lasted until The Abolition of Feudal Tenure, etc., (Scotland) Act of 2000 went into effect on November 28, 2004, and did away with several sorts of colorful ancient yet basically oppressive ways of owning land in Scotland.