[2] In the baronage there is only a small number of lordships compared to baronies, whilst earldoms are very rare.
Baronage titles no longer provide any political power as such, although the Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc.
(Scotland) Act 2000 has preserved the noble titles themselves (and the quality, precedence and heraldic rights pertaining) and with the end of feudalism coming into force in 2004, the act converted extant feudal titles into personal dignities, no longer attached to the land.
It can be a tradition of the family or a personal style of the holder for Lordships to be styled Lord or Baron interchangeably, both uses are correct and will not cause offence, in some cases female holders have been referred to in official documents as "Baroness of Lochaber" as a preference while male predecessors (and successors) were Lord.
Wallace states that in regards to Baronial titles: "Lordships, Earldoms, Marquessates and Dukedoms differ only in name from Baronies" but continues "one whose property was erected into a Lordship ranked before a simple Baron" and "A person to whom an Earldom belonged, would be superior to a person who had no more than a lordship ... One, whose lands were incorporated into a Marquessate, was superior to both ... A man, who owned a fief elevated into a Dukedom, was exhaulted above all three.
"[8] The inference in terms of superiority from greater to lesser is thus: Duke, Marquess, Earl, Lord, Baron.
(Note however that Lord Stair states that Lordships or Earldoms are "but more noble titles of a Barony".
[2]) Below is an incomplete list of Lordships created in the baronage, you can help by suggesting edits on the Talk page with evidence links.