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Crofters Holdings (Scotland) Act 1886

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11Application by crofters for enlargement

It shall be lawful for any five or more crofters resident on neighbouring holdings in a crofting parish, where any landlord or landlords after application made to him or them have refused to let to such crofters available land on reasonable terms for enlarging the holdings of such crofters, to apply to the Crofters Commission setting forth that in the said parish or in an adjacent crofting parish there is land available for the enlargement of such holdings which they are willing to take on lease, hut which the landlord or landlords refuse to let on reasonable terms ; that is to say, on such terms as are usually obtained in the letting of land of the like quality, and similarly situated in the same district, for other purposes than that of a deer forest, or of a grouse moor, or other sporting purpose.

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