4i THE AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS ACT. 



invest his capital in improvements of this character if lie were hablc to 

 be turned out of his occupation at six months' notice without any 

 compensation for the money which he had expended upon his landlord's 

 property. This act came into operation on the llth February, 167G, 

 and does not extend to either Scotland or Ireland. The 4th sec. 

 interprets the terms used in the Act: the word "landlord" bears a wide 

 interpretation, viz., " the person for the time being entitled to possession 

 of knd subject to a contract of tenancy, or entitled to receipt of rent 

 reserved by a contract of tenancy, whatever be the extent of his interest, 

 anil although the land or his interest therein is incumbered or charged 

 by himself or his settlor, or otherwise, to any extent ; the party to a 

 conti-act of tenancy under which land is actually occupied being alone 

 deemed to be the landlord in relation to the actual occupier : it also 

 includes the agent authorised in writing to act under this Act generally, 

 or for any special purpose, and the executors, administrators, assigns, 

 husband, guardian, committee of the estate, or trustees in bankruptcy 

 of the landlord. The interpretation of the " tenant " is not different 

 from that usually held. The 5th sec. gives a list of improvements 

 which are comprised in the Act. They are divided into three classes. 

 The first comprises : 



Drainage of land. 



Erection or enlargement of buildings. 



Laying down permanent pasture. 



flaking and planting osier beds. 



Making of water meadows or works of irrigation. 



]\Iaking of gardens. 



Making or improvement of roads or bridges. 



Making or improving of watercourses, ponds, walls, or reservoirs, 

 or of works for sn[)ply of water for agricultural or domestic purposes. 



Marking of fences. 



Planting of hops. 



Planting of orchards. 



Pweclaiming of waste lands. 



"Warping of land. 

 These are called improvements of the first class, and the tenant is 

 entitled to compensation up to the end of twenty years from the date of 

 outlay. The amount of the tenant's compensation in this class of 

 improvements is the sum laid out by the tenant on the improvement, 

 with a deduction of a proportionate part thereof for each year while the 

 tenancy endures after the year of tenancy in which the outlay is made, 

 and while the improvement continues, with this proviso, that where the 

 landlord was not, at the time of the consent given to the execution of 



