AN 



APPENDIX, 



A COMPENDIOUS VIEW 

 OF THE PRINCIPAL LAWS 



RELATING TO 



AGRICULTURE. 



CHAPTER I. 



Of the RELATIVE NIGHTS of LANDLORD and TEN ANT,, including 

 a concise Statement of tlie Doctrine respecting Leases. 



THE relation, between landlord and&quot; tenant, or technically fpcaking, the leflbrand leflee, arifes 

 upon a contrail for the poffeffion and profits of lands or other hereditaments on the one fide, 

 and a recompence by rent* or other confederation on the other. Sheppurd s Touch/lone, 267 ; 

 2 Black/lone * Commentaries, 317 ; i Term Reports, 598-9. 



* But there is-naoccafion for the rent to be, as it ufually is, a fum of money ; for fpurs, capons, 

 horfes, corn, and other matters, may be rendered, and frequently are rendered, by way of rent. Cokt 

 Littleton, 142; 2 Black/lone s Commentaries, 142. 



And it is to be obferved, that if in a renewed hofpital, or other leafe, the refervation be of Jo many 

 quarters of corn, this (hall be underftood to mean legal quarters, reckoning the bufhel at eight gallons, 

 although the old leafes before the flat, ti and 23 Car. a, c. i^ contained the fame refervation; and al 

 though in. fact the tenants, or lefTees, never paid in kind, but by compofition, reckoning the bufhel at a 

 cuftomary meafure of nine gallons or more, for the parties having made ufe of the term quarters, the court 

 muft conftrue the leafe according to the law exifting, when the leafe was made, and by the pofitive r&- 

 ftriftion in the above aft of parliament, whereby the bufhel (eight of which form the quarter) is notf to 

 contain eight gallons, and no more, 6 Term Reports, 333. 



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70 be placed at the ? 

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