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Encyclopedia Britannica



CROFTER

This article appears in Volume V07, Page 481 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CRE-DAH
CROFTER ,.a
term
  used, more particularly in the Highlands and islands of
Scotland
 , to designate a
tenant
  who rents and cultivates a small holding of land or " croft." This Old
English
  word, meaning originally an enclosed field, seems to correspond to the Dutch kroft, a field on high ground or
downs
 . The ultimate origin is unknown. By the Crofters' Holdings (
Scotland
 )Act 1886, a crofter is defined as the
tenant
  of a holding who resides on his holding,the annual rent of which does not exceed 30 in money, and which is situated in a crofting parish. The wholesale clearances of tenants from their crofts during the 19th century, in violation of, as the tenants claimed, an implied security of
tenure
 , has led in the past to much agitation on the
part
  of the crofters to secure consideration of their grievances. They have been the subject of royal commissions and of considerable legislation, but the effect of the Crofters Act of 1886, with subsequent amending acts, has been to improve their
condition
  markedly, Ind much of the agitation has now died out. A history of the legislation dealing with the crofters is given in the article


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