THK AtiKAKIAN KM OF 1903. n 



wanted wl. landlord, through future r< 



ini^lit have some share in them. 

 Iced cases arc not uncommon where 



gone fun II, and in order to secure 



himself the largest possible m the returns 



lie land the landlord's j 

 -run to waste before the ft 

 In cases where a wilful deteriora- 

 \ of the holding has taken place before an 

 n to have a fair rent fixed, the appli- 

 i be rejected by the court. But this 

 po\\ ot utilized. On the contrary, deterio- 



e rented lower than well-cultivated 

 Two brothers divided a farm into two 

 of equal value the good husbandman 

 got a rent-reduction from the courts of 7^ per 

 it., the bad one got 17! per cent. 1 

 One cannot therefore say that the Land Com- 

 mission has solved the problem of fixing a really 

 fair rent. Properly speaking, it would have 1. 

 to investigate, in the case of each holding, what 



ie total capital was furnished by t 

 ^llord and what by the tenant. It would 

 have had to inquire whether the landlord 1 

 not already by high rents appropriated a part 

 the s property, or whether the tenant had 



not already been compensated by specially low 

 is for penditure of capital. A com- 



1 balance must have been struck a th 

 impossible, if only for the one reason, that t 



ion, p. aa. 



