Shetland Ponies. 
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before the High Court in England, but it is worthy of notice that 
a very similar decision was given by the Court of Session in Scotland 
upon the corresponding clause of the Scotch Agricultural Holdings 
Act, 188:5 (46 it 47 Vic, c. 62), upon very similar facts. 
The case to which I refer is Strang v. Stuart, 1 in which the facts 
were that the tenancy expired at Martinmas as to the arable land, 
and at the followii g Whitsunday as to the houses and grass - a form 
of holding which, ds.I nm given to understand, is by no means unusual 
in Scotland — and that the tenant, who had given notice to determine 
his tenancy in accordance with those terms, served his landlord with 
a notice of his intention to claim compensation under the Act four 
months before Whitsunday — four months being the period of time 
in the Scotch Act corresponding to the two months in the English 
Act. It was argued in this case that the notice ought to have been 
given four months before Martinmas, just as in the English case it 
was argued that the notice ought to have been given two months 
before Old Michaelmas ; but the Scotch Court, like the English Court, 
decided that the words, " determination of the tenancy " in the Act 
mean the time when a total determination of the tenancy takes 
place, and accordingly held the notice good. 
The decision of the Queen's Bench Division in the case to which 
this note mainly refers appears to be of importance to landlords and 
tenants of agricultural land in England, because the custom of 
holding over some part or parts of a farm exists, not only in the 
part of the country in which Lord Portarlington's farm is situated, 
but in many others. And again, the decision is of importance be- 
cause it has been contended that the principle applies to those cases 
— almost universal throughout England— in which the right to use 
the barns and other farm-buildings, or part of them, for some time 
after what is usually spoken of and considered to be the end of the 
tenancy, is reserved to the tenant. How this point may be decided 
by our English Courts, if it should be brought before them, it 
would be presumptuous in me to predict ; but I may observe that it 
has been decided in Scotland, by the Sheriu* of Aberdeenshire, 
adversely to the above-mentioned contention. 2 
S. B. L. Druce. 
SHETLAND PONIES. 
The movement now in progress for establishing a Stud Book for 
Shetland Ponies has been the means of directing a great deal 
of attention to them, and, consequently, anything said or written 
respecting the breed is of more than usual" interest. It is most 
1 Reported in the 4th Series of the Court of Sessions Cases, vol >iv. p. 6Sf. 
A newspaper report may be found iD the Land Agents' Record for July 9, 188,7. 
» Hanuan v. Ramsey, 1 Sheriffs' Court Rej/tnts, p. 236. 
