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According to the above three examples, 

 showing the different plans by which improve- 

 ments are effected by landlords and tenants at 

 present, it will readily be perceived that it is 

 immaterial to either party what the law of 

 the land may be, or what the relation between 

 them the whole depending upon the fact of 

 the 57. per acre being properly invested in 

 meliorating their farms. It is from this source 

 alone that any benefit is to be derived, and 

 from none other. There are many practical 

 questions, however, arising out of this view of 

 the subject, where the several interests of 

 parties may or may not be seriously affected 

 according to circumstances. 



1. The above examples cannot be admitted 

 as strictly in accordance with present practice, 

 generally speaking. They rather exemplify 

 the equitable principles by which parties are 

 guided in the discharge of their several duties to 

 one another, than show the result of those 

 principles when reduced to practice. For 

 instance, in the above three examples, we have 

 supposed that the meliorations are wholly 

 effected by either landlord or tenant ; whereas 

 in practice, in the vast majority of cases, they 

 are a compound of the three a patch-up 



