196 LEASES. 



to farm the land in a certain way ; to keep 

 the house and buildings in repair ; to manure 

 to a certain extent ; to pay a heavy penalty, 

 if he shall break up a pasture without leave. 

 He engages, generally, not to cut the grass a 

 second time in the season. Sometimes he is 

 restricted from growing potatoes and from 

 selling hay. He is forbidden to cut down the 

 smallest timber tree. Sometimes the lease 

 gives extra powers to the landlord, of raising 

 rent, and enforcing penalties. 



And suppose the farmer cannot pay his rent 

 on the rent-day? The landlord then may 

 distrain for it ; that is, he can put a bailiff, a 

 kind of constable, on the premises, and, after 

 five days, he can seize any part of the proper- 

 ty, and sell it, to pay himself. The worst of it 

 s, that he can also seize and sell the properly 



