The meetings which have been held Edinburgh and Glasgow, with a view to promote an alteration in the Scotch law
... of entail, appear to have been composed principally of landowners. The speakers were landed proprietors; the inconveniences of the entail law upon which they expatiated with most unction were those which are felt by owners of entailed estates. The voices heard at these meetings come from the class by whom, and for whose fancied interests, the entail system was created. They are crying aloud to ...