The expression "game" is defined as meaning, in this section, 

 deer, pheasants, partridges, grouse, and black game. 



SECTION 26. Freedom of Cropping and Disposal of Produce. 

 Subsection i) gives to the tenant notwithstanding any custom 

 of the country or the provisions of any contract of tenancy or 

 agreement respecting the method of cropping of arable lands 

 full right to practise any system of cropping of the arable land and 

 to dispose of the produce ot the holding; subject to the proviso that 

 he shall previously have made, or as soon as may be shall make, 

 suitable and adequate provision to protect the holding from injury 

 or deterioration; which provision is, in the case of disposal of pro- 

 duce, to consist in the return to the holding of the full equivalent 

 manurial value to the holding of crops sold off or removed in 

 contravention of the custom, contract or agreement. But this 

 sub-section does not apply: a) in the case of a tenancy from year 

 to year, as respects the year before the tenant quits ; or any peiiod 

 after he has given or received notice to quit which results in his 

 quitting; or b) in any other case, as respects the year before the 

 expiration of the contract of tenancy. 



If the tenant exercises his rights under this section in such a 

 manner as to injure or deteriorate the holding, he is to be liable 

 to pay damages or be restrained by injunction ; and he is not en- 

 titled to compensation for improvements made by way of pro- 

 vision to protect the holding from injury or deterioration as required 

 by the section. 



* " Arable land " does not include land in grass, which by the 

 contract of tenancy is to be retained in the same condition through- 

 out the tenancy. 



The farmer is then freed from those restrictions as to cropping 

 and the sale of straw and hay which used to hamper him. 



Summing up, it may be expected, that from coming into force 

 of this Act the English farmer will sit more secure, and enjoy 

 greater freedom than he has ever done before. He appears to be 

 on the high way for a modified form of fixity of tenure, and to 

 be at least likely to be freer from the danger of capricious ejectment. 



AUBREY J. SPENCER. Contemporary Agricultural Law in Great 



Britain. (Journ. R. Agr. Soc. England, Vol. 70, 139-50. - 

 London, 1909). 



During the Parliamentary session of 1909 there has been no Act 

 passed directly affecting agricultural interests. 



