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likely to form part of future agreements, for at present the enforce- 
ment of any such counter-claims by action at law is difficult and 
costly, whereas the Act provides an easy and summary mode of 
doing so. The tenant may insist upon the extended notice to quit 
provided by the Act (§ 51), or upon the section recognising his 
property in fixtures, machinery, &g. (§ 53) ; and the landlord 
may find it useful, in view of contemplated changes in his pro- 
perty, to adopt the section enabling him to resume part of the 
holding for one or more of the purposes specified in § 52. All 
or any of these provisions may be adopted " by reference," that 
is, the sections so adopted need not be set out at length but need 
only be referred to, just as, in a private Act of Parliament, 
general Acts, or parts of general Acts are often incorporated by 
reference. Taking such an " incorporation of Acts clause " as 
a model, the agreement might run in this form : 
" For the purposes of this agreement the following provisions 
of the Agricultural Holdings (England) Act 1875 are adopted 
herewith, viz. : — ■ 
Sections 20 to 41 inclusive (relating to procedure). 
Section 51. (Time of notice to quit.) 
Section 52. (Resumption of improvements.) 
Section 53. (As to fixtures.) 
Or such part of the above sections as are not inconsistent with 
this agreement." 
Another provision in the Act, if adopted in farm agreements, 
will be found very valuable. I refer to § 42, which enables 
limited owners, by an easy method, to charge the holding with 
the amount of any compensation due to tenants. At present one 
great obstacle to security for the tenant's expenditure is the 
inability of limited owners to give the requisite guarantee or, 
with justice to their families, to pay the sum fairly due as com- 
pensation to tenants. As the greater part of the land throughout 
the United Kingdom is held by limited owners, the want of 
some simple method of enabling them to charge the inheritance 
has long been felt. No doubt limited owners, with the consent of 
the Inclosure Commissioners, may already obtain these charges 
through the Court of Chancery, and by means of the Improve- 
ment of Land Act, 1864, and the Lands' Improvement Com- 
panies, but with a trouble and expense which have hitherto often 
deterred them from making use of this cumbrous machinery. 
It has now been the object of the Legislature, subject to restric- 
tions which will be noticed hereafter, to give both to absolute and 
limited owners a cheap and easy method of charging their estates 
with the amount of compensation due under any circumstances, 
whether by force of custom, or under the Act, or by virtue of a 
special agreement. This intention might have been more 
