, C H A P. IV. 



Of the comparifon between the covenants of 

 the leafe, and the nature of the farm. 



MANY landlords are very tenacious of 

 the covenants which they have 

 ufually inferted in their leafes; fo that a 

 man when he approves a farm, and agrees 

 to the rent, may find the conditions of 

 tenure propofed to him, fuch as are incom- 

 patible with his intereft, his defigns, and 

 even with good hufbandry. 



The merit or reafonablenefs of covenants 

 muft be confidered always, on comparifon 

 with the nature of the farm : It is for want 

 of this confideration that unreafonable 

 covenants are ever propofed. Many land- 

 lords make it a rule to have all their leafes 

 alike ; fo that the tenants, who farm fandy 

 foils, are tied to the fame conditions as 

 thofe who occupy clay ones ; than which 

 nothing can be more abfurd. The beft 

 way of treating this point will be to fpecify 

 feveral common covenants, and remark the 



farms 



