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premises in which he has reasonable grounds for supposing 

 that there are live poultry in course of conveyance or packed 

 for conveyance. Poultry under this Act include " domestic 

 fowls, turkeys, geese, ducks, guinea fowls, and pigeons." 



The Revenue Act, 1911 (1 Geo. 5 c. 2), amends the Finance 

 (1909-10) Act, 1910, in relation to duties on land values. 

 Section 1 avoids contracts for payment of increment value 

 duty by a transferee or lessee so that this duty must in all 

 cases on the transfer or lease of land be paid by the transferor 

 or lessor. Section 5 enables the Commissioners on the request 

 of the owner of any pieces of land which are contiguous and 

 which do not in the aggregate exceed 100 acres in extent to 

 value those pieces of land together for the purposes of the Act, 

 although those pieces of land are in separate occupation, if 

 they are satisfied that in the special circumstances of the case 

 it is equitable to do so. This provision may enable a landowner 

 to escape undeveloped land duty where pieces of land when 

 valued together do not exceed in site value 50^. per acre, 

 although a portion if valued separately might exceed that 

 figure. 



II. — Decisions of the Courts. 



1. Labour. The decisions of the year imder the Workmen's 

 Compensation Act, 1906, are again very numerous, and it is 

 only possible to deal with a few of them which should be 

 especially noted with reference to an employer's liabilities in 

 respect of labour emploved in agriculture. In Haivkins 

 V. PoivelVs Tillery Steam Coal Co. (1911, 1 K.B. 250 ; 80 

 L.J.K.B. 769), in which the case of Clover Clayton & Co. v. 

 HugheH (1910 A.C. 242 ; 79 L.J.K.B. 470) noted in the article 

 on Contemporary Agricultural Law in the last number of this 

 Journal at page 127 was distinguished, a workman employed in 

 fairly light work was taken ill and went home and died the 

 same day from angina pectoris. The medical evidence showed 

 that angina pectoris might be brought on by several causes and 

 might be due to circumstances which could scarcely lie called 

 an accident at all. It was held that, though as a matter of 

 conjecture it was probable, it was not proved as a matter of 

 legitimate inference from the facts that the death was due to 

 accident " arising out of and in the course of the employment." 

 As the applicants had not discharged the burthen of proof cast 

 upon them of showing that the man's death resulted from his 

 employment compensation for the death was disallowed. A 

 case of injurv arising from sevei-e weather was dealt with in 

 Warner v. Couchman (1911 K.B., 351 ; 80 L.J.K.B., 526). A 

 journeyman baker while on his roiintls in his employer's cart 

 distributing loaves suffered injury in his hand and arm from 



