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suppose 20!., the landlord should consent that 

 the lease should run on for another period of 

 2 1 years, unless in the cases to be after men- 

 tioned. 



" But as it may happen that this 2O 1. now 

 stipulated to be paid at so distant a period, may- 

 be more than the farmer will find he is able to 

 pay, an option should be given to him to resign 

 his lease, if he should find that is the case, by 

 giving the landlord legal notice one year at least 

 before the expiry of the lease ; but if that no- 

 tice be omitted thus to be given, it shall be un- 

 derstood that the tenant is bound to hold the 

 lease for the second 2 1 years, at the rent speci- 

 fied in the contract. And if the landlord does 

 not give the tenant warning within one month 

 after that period, it shall be understood that he 

 too is bound to accept of the stipulated addi- 

 tional rent for the 2 1 years that are to succeed. 



" It may, however, also happen, that the 

 sum specified in the lease may be a rent consi- 

 derably below the then present value of the 

 farm : or the proprietor may have very strong 

 reasons for wishing to resume the possession of 

 that land, or to obtain an adequate rent for it : 

 a power therefore should be given to him in 

 cither case to resume the lands, if he should so 

 incline. But as a great part of that present va- 

 lue may be owing to the exertions of the farm- 

 er, who has laid out money upon the farm, in 

 the hopes of enjoying it for a second period of 

 21 years, it woulcj be unjust to deprive him of 

 this benefit, without giving him a valuable con- 

 sideration for that improved value. On this ac- 

 count it should be stipulated, that in case th2 



