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Land reform in Scotland is the ongoing process by which the ownership of land, its distribution and the law which governs it is modified, reformed and modernised by property and regulatory law.[1]
^Elliot, Alison; Watt, John; Ian, Cooke; Taylor, Pip (2014). "The Land of Scotland and the Common Good: Report of the Land Reform Review Group" (PDF). The Scottish Government. p. 25. Retrieved 4 March 2017. the Group defined land reform measures as provisions in an Act that reformed or modernised the rights of land ownership in Scotland, whether through property law or regulatory law.
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