P Q In your view what does the word clan mean A It has a general meaning of family ordinary meaning of family but there is a peculiar sense in which it is used for this quasifeudal organisation in the Highlands or you might say feudal organisation Q But its primary meaning I think is family A Yes QIn your view did the clans in fact consist either of persons linked by blood or persons linked by reason of place of dwelling in a territory A That is the defination of the Act of Parliament Reference Acts   Act of  Sept  APS IV p  Q Do you see a reference there to the pretence of blood or place of dwelling AYes QAre those familiar terms A Quite familiar Pretence means claimQ So that in your view do you get this dual element entering into the composition of the clan bloodrelation and place of dwelling A Oh yes you have both Evidence of the Very Rev Lachlan Maclean Watt LLD Bard of the Clan MacLean Association P  Q Referred to Mackenzies Works II   QDo you deduce that Sir G Mackenzie considered that from a heraldic point of view the head of the clan the chief of the clan or the representer of the family all meant the same thing A I respectfully suggest that it is a matter of Head of a Family and Head of a Clan He was a Highlander and he knew that clan means a family Clan and family mean exactly the same thing