364 Hie Agricultural Holdings {England) Act, 1875. 
Under the Agricultural Holdings Act, if the parties, or either 
of them, are dissatisfied with the decision of the referee, or 
referees and umpire, thej m.iy appeal against the award to the 
Judge of the County Court on certain specified grounds. Ac- 
cording to the Act this right of appeal must be exercised within 
seven days after delivery of the award (§ 36), but the County 
Court Orders impose a further practical limit as to time by 
requiring the appellant to file a copy of the award within four 
days after delivery, together with a concise statement in writing 
of his ground of appeal. If an appeal, therefore, be desired, the 
landlord or tenant has no time to lose ; he must make up his 
mind quickly, and act promptly, or he will lose his oppor- 
tunity of disputing the award. 
Besides the limitation of time, the right of appeal is hedged 
^round by a limitation as to money. If " the sum claimed for 
compensation " was 50Z. and under, the decision of the referee, 
referees, or umpire, is final. Neither party can go to the County 
Court unless the sum claimed for compensation exceeds 50/. 
(§ 36). The words quoted appear to include a landlord's 
counter-claim, though the construction is not quite clear. A 
reasonable construction would be to assume that the right of 
appeal arises, for instance, if the tenant claims 50/. and the 
landlord 80/., though upon the tenant's claim alone no such 
right of appeal exists. 
A third limitation to the right of appeal relates to the 
grounds upon which the award is disputed. It can only be 
disputed upon one of the grounds following (§ 36) : — 
1. That the award is invalid (§ 36, sub-sect. 1) 
2. That compensation has been awarded for improvements, 
acts, or things, breaches of covenants or agreements, or for com- 
mitting or permitting waste, in respect of which the party 
claiming was not entitled to compensation (§ 36, sub-sect. 2). 
3. That compensation has not been awarded for »improve- 
ments, acts, or things, breaches of covenants or agreements, or 
for committing or permitting waste, in respect of which the 
party claiming was entitled to compensation (§ 36, sub-sect. 3). 
We may suppose that the three limitations in the Act are 
satisfied, and that a copy of tlie award has been filed in the 
County Court, with the " concise statement," which really con- 
stitutes the notice of appeal. Henceforward the parties may be 
spoken of as appellant and respondent, for these are the .titles 
respectively given by the County Court Orders to the party 
j)rosecuting the appeal and the party supporting the award 
under the Act. It is now necessary to go outside the Act to 
the County Court Orders for information respecting the first 
stage in the new process. The concise statement should really 
