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agricultural land Agricultural Rates Act amount annual land-value annual rent apply ARTHUR HENDERSON assessed authorised buildings burdens capital land-value Chapter charge contract Corn Laws Corn Production Act cultivation deduction deer Duties earth economic rent entitled Ground Game Acts H. C. Debates H. H. ASQUITH Henry George imposed improvements Income Tax increase industry interest labour land-value policy land-value rating Land-value Tax landed property landlord Lands Valuation Scotland law of rent lease legal estates LEO TOLSTOY Lord machinery mortgage nation obtain occupier owner Patrick Edward Dove payable payment person Political Economy practice preceding principles productive land Progress and Poverty Property Act proportional contribution proprietors purposes rates and taxes reform registration rentcharge repeal revenue Scotland secure selling value Social Statics soil sub-head taxation and rating taxation of land-values taxpayers tenant tion Tithe tithe-owner tithe-rentcharge unrating valuation of land wages wealth
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Page 196 - Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that ; That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a' that. For a
Page 54 - Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers and others to make large fortunes.
Page 173 - If every just man, that now pines with want, Had but a moderate and beseeming share Of that which lewdly-pampered luxury Now heaps upon some few with vast excess, Nature's full blessings would be well dispensed In unsuperfluous even proportion, And she no whit encumbered with her store...
Page 178 - And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them. They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
Page 163 - It cannot be disputed that a person in possession of land in the assumed character of owner and exercising peaceably the ordinary rights of ownership has a perfectly good title against all the world but the rightful owner. And if the rightful owner does not come forward and assert his title by process of law within the period prescribed by the provisions of the Statute of Limitations applicable to the case, his right is forever extinguished, and the possessory owner acquires an absolute title.
Page 183 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
Page 184 - Knowing this, that never yet Share of Truth was vainly set In the world's wide fallow ; After hands shall sow the seed, After hands from hill and mead Reap the harvests yellow.
Page 67 - Separate ownership would merge into the joint-stock ownership of the public. Instead of being in the possession of individuals, the country would be held by the great corporate body— society. Instead of leasing his acres from an isolated proprietor, the farmer would lease them from the nation. Instead of paying his rent to the agent of Sir John or his Grace, he would pay it to an agent or deputy agent of the community. Stewards would be public officials instead of private ones, and tenancy the...
Page 66 - has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other...
Page 27 - What is necessary for the use of land is not its private ownership, but the security of improvements. It is not necessary to say to a man, "this land is yours," in order to induce him to cultivate or improve it. It is only necessary to say to him, "whatever your labor or capital produces on this land shall be yours.