146 The Agricultural Holdings {England) Act, 1875. 
Thus, if his outlay of 100/. only added 5/. per annum to 
letting value, the tenant on a farm belonging to a limited owner 
would be entitled to claim considerably smaller compensation 
than the tenant of an absolute owner, in any one of the years 
specified. The following Table shows the compensation due if 
the letting value is held to be increased 8/. per annum upon each 
100/. spent by the tenant: — 
Table C. 
Year. 
1877- 8 
1878- 9 
1879- 80 
Compensation 
due. 
Year. 
£96 0 
0 
1887-8 
94 0 
0 
1888-9 
90 0 
0 
1889-90 
86 0 
0 
1890-1 
84 0 
0 
1891-2 
80 0 
0 
1892-3 
76 0 
0 
1893-4 
70 0 
0 
1894-5 
66 0 
0 
1895-6 
62 0 
0 
Compensation 
due. 
£56 0 0 
52 0 0 
46 0 0 
1880- 1 86 0 0 i 1890-1 40 0 0 
1881- 2 84 0 0 1891-2 34 0 0 
1882- 3 80 0 0 ! 1892-3 28 0 0 
1883- 4 76 0 0 i 1893-4 22 0 0 
1884- 5 70 0 0 I 1894-5 14 0 0 
1885- 6 66 0 0 j 1895-6 7 12 0 
1886- 7 .. .. 
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A 
The question whether letting value is to be the principle of 
compensation depends, it will be seen, not upon the nature of 
the ownership at the determination of the tenancy, when the 
amount of compensation will be ascertained and paid, but upon 
the title of the landlord who gave his cpnsent to the particular 
improvement (§ 7). It may therefore happen, upon an estate not 
in settlement at the time when an improvement was sanctioned 
and made, that, owing to a subsequent settlement, compensation 
in respect of the improvement may be paid by a limited owner 
upon the basis applicable to holdings under absolute owners. 
The rights of the tenant remain unchanged by any change in his 
landlord's title arising after consent once given. 
The tenant's claim to compensation for improvements of thi 
first class is subject to one deduction, which will arise fairly 
enough when the tenancy is determined. The question, " What 
have these improvements cost ? " if the claim arises under an 
absolute owner, will then be followed by another question — are 
they in "tenantable repair or good condition?" (§ 11). If the 
landlord, being an absolute owner, is called on to take over the 
outgoing tenant's improvements, they must really represent the 
unexhausted value assigned to them by the tenant, subject to the \ 
limitations in the Act. The amount found duo to him will, . 
therefore, be reduced by " any sum reasonably necessary to be | 
expended "(§ 11) for putting into "tenantable repair or good ' 
condition" the buildings, fences, ponds, drains, or other works 
in respect of wliich the claim arises. It will be understood 
that, in the absence of special agreement to the contrary, no such 
liability attaches to the tenant if the improvements are run out 
