Ok, so is this a scam or a genuine conservation effort?

[AFS1970]

More than 145K for an acre? No one ever said the Scots were dumb.

At least these plots are big enough to make a landing strip for the Saltire.

As for not being sold out from under you, that is a buyer beware issue, dependent entirely on the scruples of the main estate owners. There is a cemetery not to far from my home that was investigate for reselling the same plots for years. So I can see many different foreigners finding out one day that they had all bought the same square foot of land. At least that would be better than finding out that the whole pasture had been sold for a skyscraper, and you now owned a bit of the basement.

However I do have a mostly serious question, does the number before Laird, as in the 1st Laird of such and such, have to do with a generation or merely a number of how many there are? Are new buyers going to be happy with titles like 407th Laird of somewhere?

[ThistleDown]

More than 145K for an acre? No one ever said the Scots were dumb.

At least these plots are big enough to make a landing strip for the Saltire.

As for not being sold out from under you, that is a buyer beware issue, dependent entirely on the scruples of the main estate owners. There is a cemetery not to far from my home that was investigate for reselling the same plots for years. So I can see many different foreigners finding out one day that they had all bought the same square foot of land. At least that would be better than finding out that the whole pasture had been sold for a skyscraper, and you now owned a bit of the basement.

However I do have a mostly serious question, does the number before Laird, as in the 1st Laird of such and such, have to do with a generation or merely a number of how many there are? Are new buyers going to be happy with titles like 407th Laird of somewhere?

Hmmm. Well firstly you are quoting US law not Scots law. Somewhat different I should think. Secondly the whole thing is, surely, tongue in cheek. Does anyone seriously think they become a laird (or, even better, a lord) for having bought a square yard of turf? And thirdly, I suspect that the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 480th are titles given our lads to themselves and has to do with the order in which they made their turf-buy.

[AFS1970]

Hmmm. Well firstly you are quoting US law not Scots law. Somewhat different I should think. Secondly the whole thing is, surely, tongue in cheek. Does anyone seriously think they become a laird (or, even better, a lord) for having bought a square yard of turf? And thirdly, I suspect that the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 480th are titles given our lads to themselves and has to do with the order in which they made their turf-buy.

I suppose that it does not really matter where the law is from if it is being broken. My point was merely that such deals are at the mercy of the sellers own sense of ethics. Which I have no reason to doubt in this case, just making the point.

As for becoming a Laid by buying a square yard of turf, well if the only real definition is landowner, then I would guess that owning land does indeed qualify you to the title. However as offers like this are likely only known in the Scottish cultural community (like here) it would also seem that anyone to whom it would matter, would also be able to see through such a flimsy title.

Thanks for the answer about numbering, that is what I suspected. Of course if the numbers are not issued by the seller and are instead only traded among Lairds, there is the chance one could run into another 517th Laid of whooseywhatsus. Wouldn't that be embarrassing.