feu duty

Feu duty was abolished although compensation may be payable.

The feu duties brought in an income for the landowners and gave security for the tenants.

In 1974 legislation began a process of redeeming feu duties so that most of these payments were ended.

The document discharged him of the feu duties which were due and unpaid, beginning in November of 1671, the same year as the christening in Aberfoyle.

A 1587 charter granted to Hector Maclean of Duart requires feu duty on land paid as 60 ells of cloth of white, black and green colours.

The feudal system lingered on in Scots law on land ownership, so that a landowner as a vassal still had obligations to a feudal superior including payment of feu duty.

In 1666 the feu duties payable on the lands of Ormescheoch (Armsheugh) held by the Laird of Skelmorlie were £00 16s 08d.

Under the now abolished feudal system, a person of whom land was held (and who thus had the right to receive payment of feu duty and to enforce the real burdens over the property).

There is a copy of the Church of Scotland Building Committee schedule which shows that the ground for the church was given free by Charles Morrison with a nominal feu duty.

For a further two years, the Superior had the option of claiming compensation, which was fixed at a single payment of such a size that when invested at an annual rate of 2.5%, would yield interest equal to the former feu duty.

The earl granted a piece of land in Ardrossan with a nominal feu duty to the church and his countess laid the church foundation stone on 30 November 1874; it opened in 1875 and consecrated in 1882 by Bishop Wilson.

The practice of feuing (by which a tenant paid an entry sum and an annual feu duty, but could pass the land on to their heirs) meant that the number of people holding heritable possession of lands, which had previously been controlled by the church or nobility, expanded.