152 The Landed Interest. 



in the economy of the parish and district. 

 These should not be liable to be lightly 

 broken by the act of an inconsiderate land- 

 owner, or his agent. In some English counties, 

 and notably on the Crown estates in various 

 parts of the country, and on Lord Leicester's 

 fine farms in Norfolk, leases of twenty and 

 twenty-one years have long been given. 



The system may be said to be universal in 

 Scotland, where the principle has been recog- 

 nised for several generations. In Ireland, as has 

 been previously shown, leases for lives, leases 

 for ever even, are not uncommon, but the 

 rule, now becoming general, is that of 

 leases for twenty-one or thirty-one years. In 

 Security farms under ;^ioo rental, where no lease for 



against 



disturb- the usual statutory term of years is given, 



ance in 



Ireland. there is a security against " disturbance " or 

 removal, by very stringent conditions upon the 

 landowner, under the late Irish Land Act. No 

 such legal obligations are imposed in England 

 or Scotland, where, on this very important 

 point, the farmer is left, like other members of 

 the community, to make his own bargain. 



