sect. VI. THE COUNTY OF FIFE. 



entry, in equal proportions ; and if an arable 

 farm, Whitsunday and Martinmas, 18 and 21 

 months after entry. In some instances the first 

 half year's rent is made payable at Candlemas ; 

 and of late some proprietors have attempted to 

 make it payable at Martinmas, 1 2 months after 

 entry. Besides the sum stipulated under the 

 denomination of rent, the tenant is taken bound 

 to pay all public burdens that are payable br 

 the proprietor himself in grain or meal ; on 

 which account he either pays less rent, or is al- 

 lowed a deduction according to the value of the 

 victual. 



The covenants in old leases are generally 

 simple, securing the farm-stead and fences to 

 be left in complete repair, or otherwise, accord- 

 ing to the state they were in at the tenant's en- 

 try, obliging him to labour and manure the 

 land according to the rules of good husbandry, 

 to leave a certain proportion in grass the last 

 three years, to grind his victual at a certain 

 mill, &c. 



New leases are, in this respect, much more 

 complex, exhibiting a variety of new covenants, 

 new rotations, and restrictions, which are not 

 always properly adapted to the soil, or climate, 

 or the state of the farm : often- embarassing, 

 and sometimes impracticable, and which there- 

 fore not unfrequently terminate in litigation, 

 and the ruin both of farm and farmer. 



The following are the clauses most common- 

 ly inserted : 



ift, The lands are let to the tenant and his 

 heirs only, secluding assignees and subtenants, 

 voluntary or legal. 



