48 THE AGRICULTUPvAL HOLDINGS ACT. 



1. That the award is invalid: 



2. That compensation has been awarded in respect of matters for 

 ■which the party claiming vras not entitled to compensation: or 



3. That compensation has not been awarded in matters for which the 

 party claiminii' was entitled to compensation, and the Jndge may remit 

 the whole or part of the case to be reheard. 



The decision of the County Court Judge shall be final, save that at 

 the request of either party he shall state a special case on a question of 

 law, for the judgment of the High Court of Justice. 



Any money agreed or awarded to be paid under this Act siiall be 

 recoverable as other money under the ordinary jurisdiction of the 

 County Court. 



The County Court has power to appoint a guardian for landlord or 

 tenant in the case of either being an infant or of unsound mind : it may 

 also appoint a person to act as the next friend of a married woman in 

 certain cases. 



By sec. 42, a landlord, by an order of the County Court, may charge 

 the holding with the amount of compensation he has paid to the tenant, 

 provided that, if he be not absolute owner of the holding for his own 

 benefit, no instalment or interest shall be made payable after the time 

 when the improvement in respect whereof compensation is paid, will for 

 the purposes of the Act be taken to be exhausted. 



By sees. 45 — 47, the Act applies to lands belonging to Her Majesty 

 the Queen, in right of the Crown and the Duchy of Lancaster, and to 

 land belonging to the Duchy of Cornwall. 



By sec. 48, tlie powers of tliis Act cannot be exercised by an arch- 

 bishop or bishop in respect of lands assigned "or secured as the endow- 

 ment of a see without the approval in writing of the Ecclesiastical 

 Commissioners. 



Nor, by sec. 49, in the case of an incumbent of an ecclesiastical 

 benefice without the written approval of the Governors of Queen Anne's 

 Bounty, 



Nor, by sec. 50, in the case of trustees for ecclesiastical or charitable 

 purposes without the written approval of the Charity Commissioners. 



Sec. 51 is very important, seeing that by it a year's notice to quit is 

 necessary instead of half a year. 



Sec. 52 legislates for cases in which a landlord gives notice to his 

 tenant to quit with the object of using the land for certain purposes, 

 viz. : 



(].) I'^i'cction of farm-labourers' cottages ; 



(2.) Providing gardens for farm-labourers; 



(3.) Allotments for labourers ; 



