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Crofter, in the Crofters Acts (Scotland), means a person who is tenant of a holding from year to year and resides on his holding, the annual rent of which does not exceed 30l. and which is situated in a 'croafting parish'; see the (English) Crofters Acts of 1886, 1887, 1891, and 1908, and the Small Land-holders (Scotland) Act, 1911 (172 Geo. 5, c. 49).