The Irish Landlord and His Accusers, with an Account of Misguided Legislation and Consequent Demoralization and Danger, Social and Political1882 - 556 pages |
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Page 476 - with respect to " the purchase money or compensation coming to parties having limited interests, or " prevented from treating, or not making title.
Page 457 - Where a tenant sells his tenancy to any person other than the landlord, the landlord may at any time within the prescribed period give notice both to the outgoing tenant and to the purchaser of any sums which he may claim from the outgoing tenant for arrears of rent or otherwise.
Page 476 - Act the following words and expressions shall have the meanings hereby assigned to them, unless there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction ; that is to say, The word " Borough " shall mean the township and borough of Hartlepool in the county of Durham : The word "Corporation...
Page 479 - In the case of holdings valued under the Acts relating to the valuation of rateable property in Ireland at an annual value of — (1.) 10Z. and under, a sum which shall in no case exceed seven years
Page 394 - These are the principles, as clearly and fully stated as limit of time will allow, which I advise Ireland to adopt at once, and at once to arm for. Should the people accept and adhere to them, the English government will then have to choose whether to surrender the Irish landlords, or to support them with the armed power of the empire. If it refuse to incur the odium and expense, and to peril the safety of England in a social war of extermination, then the landlords are nobody, the people are lords...
Page 479 - ... whole (or such sum as the landlord may be willing to accept as the equivalent of the whole) of the rent payable in respect of the year of the tenancy expiring on the gale day next before the passing of this Act, and that antecedent arrears are due, the land commission may make, in respect of such antecedent arrears, an advance of a sum not exceeding one year's rent of the holding, and not exceeding half the antecedent arrears, and thereupon the court shall by order declare the holding to be charged...
Page 392 - None of us, whether we be in America or in Ireland, or wherever we may be, will be satisfied until we have destroyed the last link which keeps Ireland bound to England.
Page 464 - Act referred to as a statutory term), such tenancy shall (if it so long continues to subsist) be deemed to be a tenancy subject to statutory conditions...
Page 477 - in relation to a holding means any person for the time being entitled to receive the rents and profits of any holding : "Tenant" means the holder of land under a landlord for a , term of years, or for lives, or for lives and years, or from year to year...
Page 466 - no rent shall be allowed or made payable in any proceedings under this Act in respect of improvements made by the tenant or his predecessors in title...