-
loans were illegal, the main
method of
securing realty was by
wadset (ME wedset). A
wadset was a loan
masked as a sale of land
under right of reversion...
- Mary's Isle
wadset clauses,
attempted to
exercise the
right to call on Lord Selkirk, The 5th Earl, to
accept the
conditions of the
wadset, and to deliver...
-
compensation was the
comital rights in
Orkney and Shetland. He
already held a
wadset of the
royal rights; and to
ensure his
complete control, he
referred the...
- Sutherland. When Lady
Sutherland inherited the estate,
there were many
wadsets (a type of mortgage) on much of the land; like many
Highland estates, it...
-
since 1455. In 1659
George Sinclair, the 6th Earl of Caithness,
granted the
wadset of
Stroma to John
Kennedy of Kermuck, who had fled to the far
north after...
- had been
given to his grandfather, Sir William, 7th Earl of Morton. The
wadset (a loan
masked as a sale of land
under right of reversion) of the Lordship...
- the estate,
there were a
large number of
wadsets (a type of mortgage) on much of the land, and
further wadsets were
taken out to finance,
among other things...
-
family of Conchra,
descended from
Alexander MacRae who in 1677
received a
wadset (mortgage) of the
lands of
Conchra on Loch Long, 2
kilometres (1.2 mi) north...
- obtained,
either by tack or
wadset, the
lands of Castleton, Knock, Totamurich, and Camuscross, and of
these he
obtained a new
wadset from his brother, Sir James...
-
compensation was the
comital rights in
Orkney and Shetland. He
already held a
wadset of the
royal rights; and to
ensure his
complete control, he
referred the...
