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«' him to refign his leafe if he fhould find that is the cafe, by 

 «* giving the landlord legal notice one year at leaft, before 

 •« the expiry of the leafes ; but if that notice be omitted 

 *♦ thus to be given, it fhall be underftood that the tenant 

 «* is bound to hold the leafe for the fecond twenty-one - 

 «« years, at the rent fpecified in the contrad. And if the 

 *' landlord does not give the tenant warning within one 

 «« month after that period, it fhall be underftood that he 

 " too is bound to accept of the ftipulated additional rent 

 «« for the twenty-one years that are to fucceed. 



<* It may however alfo happen that the fum fpecified 

 " in the leafe may be a rent confiderably below the then 

 •• prefent value of the farm : or the proprietor may 

 ** have very ftrong reafons for wiftiing to refume the pof- 

 *• feflion of that land, or to obtain an adequate rent for it : 

 ** a power therefore fhould be given to him in either cafe to 

 " refume the land?, if he fhould fo incline. But as a great 

 *' part of that prefent value may be owing to the exertions 

 •• of the farmer,who has laid out money upon the farm in the 

 * ' hopes of enjoying it for a fecond period of twenty-one years, 

 " it would be unjufl to deprive him of this benefit without' 

 " giving him a valuable confideration for that improved 

 «• value. On this account it fhould be flipulated, that in. 

 •' cafe the proprietor at this time refumes the farm, he fhall 

 «« become bound to pay to the tenant ten years purchafe 

 *• of the additional rent he had agreed to pay j which in the 

 ** example above flated would be 200I. 



*' But tiie land may be worth flill more than the 20I.. 

 ♦' of rife mentioned in the leafe, and the tenant may be 

 " content to pay more, fay lol. rather than remove; and he 

 '* makes offer accordingly to do fo. In that cafe, the land- 

 ** lord fhould be bound either to accept that additional offer 

 " or to pay Un years purchafe of that alfo; and fo on for 



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