Tlie Agricultural Holdings (^England) Act, 1875. 167 
to abide the event (Consolidated Orders). The judgment of 
the High Court on the case, and on any question of costs or 
any other matter, will be conclusive, and the Judge of the 
County Court must act on it (§ 36). 
It is provided by § 21 that the parties may agree respecting 
the compensation due to either of them. The terms of such 
agreement as to the amount, mode, and time of payment should 
be in writing. The money due under such agreement, or by 
virtue of any award or appeal-order, must be paid within four- 
teen days after the time when it is agreed, or awarded, or ordered 
to be paid. In case of default, the amount may be recovered by 
obtaining an ordinary County Court order, which will operate 
in the usual way as a judgment for debt or damages (§ 37). 
The costs of proceedings in the County Court, like those of 
referees and umpire, will be in the discretion of the Court, upon 
a scale prescribed by the Lord Chancellor, both as to County 
Court costs proper, and as to the costs of the reference to be 
taxed by the Registrar (§ 40). 
I need only briefly notice the useful legal provisions em- 
powering the County Court, for the purposes of the Act, upon 
the application of any person interested, to appoint a guardian 
to represent any landlord or tenant, being an infant without a 
guardian, or being of unsound mind, not so found by inquisi- 
tion (§ 38). By the same simple process a " next friend " may 
be appointed to act for a married woman. For the purposes of 
the Act, a married woman entitled for her separate use, and not 
restrained from anticipation, will be in respect of land as if she 
were unmarried. In the case of any other married woman 
desirous of doing any act under the statute, her husband's con- 
currence will be requisite ; but the County Court may exercise 
the powers of the Court of Chancery in examining her apart 
Irom him, and ascertaining that she knows the nature and effect 
of what she proposes to do, and that she is acting freely and 
voluntarily (§ 39). 
Charge of Tenant's Compensation. 
Some general remarks have already been made upon this 
important part of the Act. The provisions relating to it will 
now be examined in greater detail. We have seen (§ 37) that 
whether compensation is awarded under the Act to landlord or to 
tenant, the money must be paid within fourteen days. It is 
only upon payment that the landlord can obtain from the 
County Court a " charge on the holding " in respect of the com- 
pensation so paid (§ 42). The creation of such a charge is in 
the discretion of the Court ; and before the order is issued, ap- 
