CONTENTS IX 



CHAPTER X 



THE GENERAL RELATIONS OF LANDLORD AND TENANT page 



Friendly relations— Tenants not satisfied with rents, but disinclined 

 to speak out — Existing rents in distressed districts — Conclu- 

 sions — Urgency of this question .... I47 



CHAPTER XI 



THE AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS ACT (1883) 



Principle of Act— Essential defects : (i.) no machinery ; (ii.) no 

 protection to best tenants — Largely inoperative — Costly and 

 uncertain— Dread of counter claims — Restrictive covenants, 

 etc. — Remedies.— Simultaneous claims— Scheduling dilapida- 

 tions — Limit of claim for waste — Record of condition — Free- 

 dom of cultivation and sale of produce — Limitation of counter- 

 claims and penal rents — Freedom to make improvements — 

 Market Gardeners' Compensation Act, 1895 — Scotch demands 

 — English suggestions— The law should encourage improve- 

 ments—Cumulative fertility— Continuous good farming- 

 Laying down of pasture — Other improvements, etc. — Retro- 

 spective compensation — Compensation for sitting tenant — 

 Compensation for disturbance — Law of distress— One award 

 for payments under Act and under custom — E.xisting valuers 

 —Demands of agriculturists— Scotch suggestions— English 

 suggestions — Conclusion as to arbitrators . . .154 



CHAPTER XII 



ARBITRATION AS TO RENT 



How far reforms suggested really protect tenant— Nature of evi- 

 dence—The demand for fair rents— Arbitration rather than 

 land courts— The " three F's " policy— Objections discussed- 

 Unfavourable evidence — Conclusions — How far arbitration 

 as to rents is possible— The national importance of such a 

 policy ....•••• ^31 



CHAPTER XIII 



LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS 



Bills brought before Parliament . . . 256 



