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Report on the legislative measures requisite to facilitate the adoption of commercial contracts respecting the occupation of land in Ireland
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Details
- Creator
- by Robert Longfield
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Dublin : Hodges and Smith ; London : Ridgeway, 1851
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (iv, [3]-43 pages)
- OCLC
- ocn797291302
- Reproduction from the The Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature, Senate House Library, University of London.
- At head of title: "Society for Promoting Scientific Inquiries into Social Questions."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- section 1. Restrictions on a landlord's power of making commercial contracts with his tenants -- section 2. Restrictions on powers of making contracts respecting land under the management of receivers, &c. -- section 3. Impediments to commercial contracts for leases, arising from insecurity -- section 4. Impediments arising from the laws regulating the ownership of trees, buildings, fixtures, and improvements, from the use of technical language, and stamps -- section 5. Suggestions as to the legislation necessary to secure the principle of commercial freedom in agricultural contracts. Leasing powers -- section 6. Suggestions as to receivers -- section 7. Suggestions as to giving tenants compensation for unexhausted improvements -- section 8. Suggestions as to giving landlords power to charge the inheritance for permanent improvements -- section 9. Additional suggestions for the removal of other impediments to free contracts between landlord and tenant -- section 10. Present state of the law respecting land held without written lease or other express contract -- section 11. Suggested legislation respecting cases where there are no express contracts made between landlord and tenant -- section 12. Present state of the law respecting proceedings to enforce the rights and duties of landlord and tenant, law of distress, &c. -- section 13. Present state of the law as to the modes of recovering rent otherwise than by distress -- section 14. Difficulties in enforcing landlord's and tenant's obligations and duties -- section 15. Present state of the law with regard to the landlord's recovery of the possession of land -- section 16. Suggested alterations in the laws for better enforcing payment of rent, and other contracts incidental to the relation of landlord and tenant -- section 17. Alterations suggested in the law of ejectment, waste, &c. -- section 18. Conclusion