History of Agricultural Rent in England 3 



one, but to several modern legal conceptions, 

 and the same proposition holds good if we 

 substitute economic for legal. 



Under modern conditions in England we 

 distinguish sharply between rent, profits, and 

 wages, and the three kinds of income 

 derived from agricultural land are expressed 

 in the typical case in terms of money. The 

 first thing, however, we notice when we 

 go back to the beginnings of history is, 

 that the relations of landlord, tenant, and 

 labourer are not based on monetary 

 agreements, and the incomes of the three 

 parties are not reckoned in terms of money. 



Before the Norman Conquest the dominant 

 system of landholding had come to be of 

 the manorial type, and this type was 

 intensified under the Norman influence. 

 In England at the present day there are 

 still manors, and the lords of these manors 

 have certain rights and privileges, but they 



