Aspects of Scottish property law — 1 Land Tenure

It is frequently assumed — if any thought is given to the matter — that the rules of English law apply throughout Great Britain with only minor variations so far as Scotland and Northern Ireland are concerned. Such an assumption, at least so far as Scotland is concerned, while understandable, is nonetheless incorrect; and it is one of which, I dare say, many an English property manager has been more or less rudely disabused depending on the degree of nationalistic pride felt by his company's Scottish solicitor.