The Agricultural Holdings (^England) Act, 1875. 
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Commencement of Act. 
2. This Act shall commence from and immediately after the fourteenth day 
of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six. 
Extent of Act. 
3. This Act shall not extend to Scotland or Ireland. 
4. In this Act — 
Interpretation. 
" Contract of tenancy " means a letting of land for a term of years, or for 
lives, or for lives and years, or from year to year, or at will : 
" Determination of tenancy " means the cesser of a contract of tenancy 
by reason of effluxion of time, or from any other cause : 
" Landlord" means the person for the time being entitled to possession of 
land subject to a contract of tenancy, or entitled to receipt of rent 
reserved by a contract of tenancy, whatever be the extent of his 
interest, and although the land or his interest therein is encumbered 
or charged by himself or his settlor, or otherwise, to any extent; the 
party to a contract of tenancy imder which land is actually occupied 
being alone deemed to be the landlord in relation to the actual 
occupier : 
" Tenant " means the holder of land under a contract of tenancy : 
" Landlord " or " tenant " includes the agent authorised in writing to 
act under this Act generally, or for any special purpose, and the 
executors, administrators, assigns, husband, guardian, committee of 
the estate, or trustees in bankruptcy, of a landlord or tenant : 
" Holding," includes all land held by the same tenant of the same land- 
lord for the same term under the same contract of tenancy . 
"Absolute owner" means the owner or person capable of disposing, 
by appointment or otherwise, of the fee simple or whole interest of 
or in freehold, copyhold, or leaseho'd land, although the land or 
his interest therein is mortgaged, encumbered, or charged to any 
extent : 
" County Court," in relation to a holding, means the County Court within 
the district whereof the holding or the larger part thereof is situate : 
" Person " includes a body of persons and a corporation aggregate or 
sole. 
The designations of landlord and tenant shall, for the purposes of this Act, 
continue to apply to the parties to a contract of tenancy until the conclusion 
of any proceedings taken under this Act on the determination of the tenancy. 
Compensation. 
Tenants Title to Compensation. 
5. Where, after the commencement of this Act, a tenant executes on his 
holding an improvement comprised in either of the three classes following : 
First Class. 
Drainage of land. 
Erection or enlargement of buildings. 
Laying down of permanent pasture. 
Making and planting of osier beds. 
Making of water meadows or works 
of irrigation. 
Making of gardens. 
Making or improving of roads or 
bridges. 
Making or improving of water- 
courses, ponds, wells, or reservoirs, 
or of works for supply of water for 
agricultural or domestic purposes. 
Making of fences. 
Planting of hops. 
Planting of orchards. 
Reclaiming of waste land. 
Warping of land. 
