The evil influences of entail and settlement upon agriculture. (Lond. and counties Liberal union). |
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The evil influences of entail and settlement upon agriculture. (Lond. and ... sir Charles Whitehead Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1883 |
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acres Adam Smith alienation alteration Arthur Arnold Assistant-Commissioner Brodrick Caird capital Children in Agriculture Cobden Commission on Agriculture Conquest cottages cultivation Custom of Primogeniture depression districts of England Domesday Book Employment of Women English Land Entail and Settlement entailed estates evils families farms favour fee simple feudal Free Land Free Trade gavelkind give Gladstone hereditary improvements increase influence interest Irish J. S. Mill John Morley Joseph Kay Justice Stephen Land and English Land Laws Land Question land system landed property largest owners hold law of Entail law of Primogeniture legislation Liberal Government Lord Cairns nation Norman Conquest number of landowners opinion persons Political Economy political question population practical Primogeni proprietors re-settlement reforms remarks rent Report Richard Cobden Royal Commission says sentiment settled estates Shaw-Lefevre shew shewn sioners statute tenant farmers tion transfer of land twelve largest owners value of land Whigs whole yeomanry
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Side 34 - I would take Adam Smith in hand, and I would have a League for free trade in Land just as we had a League for free trade in Corn.
Side 6 - sacredness of property" is talked of, it should always be remembered, that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property. No man made the land. It is the original inheritance of the whole species. Its appropriation is wholly a question of general expediency. When private property in land is not expedient, it is unjust.
Side 9 - The petty proprietors who cultivated their own fields and enjoyed a modest competence, without affecting to have scutcheons and crests, or aspiring to sit on the bench of justice, then formed a much more important part of the nation than at present.
Side 6 - The claim of the landowners to the land is altogether subordinate to the general policy of the state. The principle of property gives them no right to the land, but only a right to compensation for what ever portion of their interest in the land it may be the policy of the state to deprive them of.
Side 5 - There still remain in both parts of the united kingdom some great estates which have continued without interruption in the hands of the same family since the times of feudal anarchy. Compare the present condition of those estates with the possessions of the small proprietors in their neighbourhood, and you will require no other argument to convince you how unfavourable such extensive property is to improvement.
Side 8 - So that they were justly branded, as the source of new contentions, and mischiefs unknown to the common law ; and almost universally considered as the common grievance of the realm '. But as the nobility were always fond of this statute, because it preserved their family estates from forfeiture, there was little hope of procuring a repeal by the legislature, and therefore, by the connivance of an active and politic prince, a method was devised to evade it.
Side 9 - ... bench of justice, then formed a much more important part of the nation than at present. If we may trust the best statistical writers of that age, not less than a hundred and sixty thousand proprietors, who with their families must have made up more than a seventh of the whole population, derived their subsistence from little freehold estates.
Side 24 - I say to my agent, • What am I to do ?' He answers, ' the buildings must be rebuilt, the worst land laid down in grass, the land drained, and cleansed, and in two years you may get a tenant.
Side 8 - Children grew disobedient when they knew they could not be set aside: farmers were ousted of their leases made by tenants...
Side 9 - ... proprietors, who with their families must have made up more than a seventh of the whole population, derived their subsistence from little freehold estates. The average income of these small...