ABSTRACT
Scotland was one of the last countries in Europe to receive the feudal system. Only the briefest accounts of the feudal system need be given and no attempt is made to discuss the position in England, which differed in important respects from the rest of western Europe. In modern Scottish feudalism the only surviving tenure of importance is feu farm, and the reddendo is the payment of a twice-annual sum of money known as feuduty. During the 1970s the Commission produced a series of consultative memoranda on the subject of corporeal moveables, although in the event no final report was ever produced. The Commission issued a Discussion Paper on this subject in 19915 and a final report is likely to be published in the course of 1997. The other subject occupying the Scottish Commission in the field of land law is the abolition of the feudal system of land tenure.
