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the landlord or tenant to execute a binding lease 

 under seal. 



The following statement of the desirable covenants 

 of both lessee and lessor was 

 Lessees' and lessors' given in " Making a Fishery," 

 covenants in a lease. and as it was carefully con- 

 sidered by my late friend Basil 

 Field, whose knowledge and experience of the law on 

 the subject were very great, I feel I cannot do better 

 than repeat it here : — 



" After naming the parties to the lease it should 

 specify whether the sole and exclusive right of fishing 

 is let, and whether the taking of eels is also included. 

 The name of the river should be given, and it should 

 be stated that the right extends to carriers and ditches, 

 and reference should be made to a plan to be a portion 

 of the lease. As before remarked, it is desirable that 

 this plan should be one of the Ordnance maps. The 

 numbers of the plots (as on the Ordnance map) over 

 which the fishing extends should be enumerated, and 

 it should be stated that all the lessor's rights of fishing 

 on the property are included, excepting such as are 

 specially excepted in subsequent clauses." 



"It should set forth that the lessee has the right to 

 cut weeds, clear away mud or soil and deposit them 

 on the banks, and generally do any work deemed 

 desirable for the improvement of the fishery ; and it 

 should further recite description or position of any 

 house or keepers' cottages covered by the lease, any 

 right-of-way required by the lessee to gain access to 



