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Feu was long the most common form of land tenure in Scotland, as conveyancing in Scots law was dominated by feudalism until the Scottish Parliament passed...

c. xiv 22 May 1890 An Act for the transference of the Property of the Feuars of Falkirk to the Magistrates and Council of the Burgh of Falkirk; for extending...

of the value of 40s of auld extent. This excluded the growing class of feuars, who would not gain these rights until 1661. The clerical estate was marginalised...

Alexander Borthwick, upon the resignation of James Wilson, the previous feuar, on 27 June 1495. Lord Borthwick died on 20 May 1503, and he was succeeded...

providing for the Transference of the Property of the Stintmasters and Feuars of Falkirk to the Magistrates and Council; and for other Purposes. Lancaster...

Scrymgeour and Margaret Campbell. In his father's lifetime he was known as feuar of Dudhope. He became Constable and Provost of Dundee. Scrimgeour was patron...

(Scotland) Act 1874 – and there is much demand for building ground, the feuars frequently stipulated that the builder pay an annual rent rather than purchase...

Peterhead". The town's first known population totalled 56. The 12 original feuars occupied land along Seagate between the pier of Port Henry, to the north...

he was in 1685 recorded on the roll of the Lochwinnoch heritors, as the feuar of the land of Auchinbothie-Blair. William Hamilton, the elder of Brownmuir...

of the value of 40s of auld extent. This excluded the growing class of feuars, who would not gain these rights until 1661. The clerical estate was marginalised...

Marie Aldinstoun. After Clavie's death, she married Patrick Livingstone, feuar of Saltcoats. Elizabeth Lane Furdell, The Royal Doctors, 1485-1714: Medical...

superiors to note that in a petition to King Charles I dated 4 April 1636 the feuars and tenants still refer to themselves as "the vassals of the Abbacy of Coldingham"...

great pearls, for a loan of £1000 Scots made jointly with Michael Balfour feuar of Montquhanie. At this time Learmonth and James Sandilands of St Monans...

George Hamilton of Preston and his brothers Patrick and John Hamilton feuar of Preston had attacked the lawyer and author Habbakuk Bissett at St Giles'...

Queen of Scots. Their children included: James Beaton (d. August 1609), feuar of Melgund from 1586, who married Margaret or Helen Menzies, daughter of...

Stirling Castle. In 1582 Robert's eldest son Patrick Drummond of Monzie feuar of Carnock, was involved in the Ruthven Raid. In July 1583 he lost his court...

Thomas feued the lands of Grandtully to William, who was then known as the "feuar of Grandtully". William Stewart became a gentleman of the king's bedchamber...

Dickson, a merchant in the Trongate of Glasgow, whose father was an old feuar of some lands called the Kirk of Muir, in the parish of St. Ninians, Stirlingshire...

Bogies Wynd, Feuars Arms 56°07′15″N 3°08′46″W / 56.120958°N 3.146227°W / 56.120958; -3.146227 (Commercial Street And Bogies Wynd, Feuars Arms) Category A...

VI appointed John Anstruther of that Ilk, and his son James Anstruther "feuar" of Anstruther, to be searchers of the customs of Anstruther. James Anstruther...