THE SCOTTISH LAND COURT 



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c) Modification of Rents. 



The work of the I^and Court in coniiection with rents falls under two 

 heads, that concerned with the crofters, called landholders by the Act 

 -of 1911, and that concerned with the statutory small tenants. 



The rents of the former had within the crofting counties been dealt 

 with before 1911 by the Crofters' Commission, but rents fixed by the 

 commission are liable to revision at the end of everj^ seven years. The 

 following table summarizes the Land Court's revision of rents in 1915, such 

 revision being, as will be seen, favourable to the crofter rather than the 

 landlord : 



