British Agriculture. 
323 = 57 
Id partitions of lands. By their aid any two landowners can, land,, inex- 
|very trifling expense, correct any irregularity in the boundary '^^ei^^nd 
their respective estates, or even exchange entire farms or operation. * 
lates. This may be done without any risk or investiga- 
|n of title, by the simple process of attaching to the lands 
changed all the accidents of title, tenure, and incumbrance, 
lich formerly belonged to each other. The only questions 
luiiing the decision of the Commissioners are: Is the ex- 
pnge beneficial to the two estates ? Are the parcels proposed 
Ibe exchanged equal in value? or within one-eighth of an 
liality in value? When satisfied of this, the Commission 
Ihorises the exchange, and the one parcel immediately, for 
[purposes, takes the place of the other. So that if the title 
leither be thereafter found faulty, the person who may recover 
ll have, not the land with the faulty title, but that which the 
pimissioners have put in its place, and clothed with all its 
bilities. Certain notices must be given; the order of exchange 
mot confirmed until three months after the notice, and if 
ring that period any person dissents who is entitled to any 
tte in, or charge upon, either of the lands proposed to be 
|hanged, the Commissioners withhold their confirmation while 
dissent continues. From time to time the powers of the 
imission have been extended to comprise all cases omitted 
im the original statute. All hereditaments, corporeal and 
iiorporeal, may now be exchanged with ease and at a very 
n derate cost. Inequality in value to the extent of an eighth 
V be compensated by a rent-charge annexed to the less valu- 
', and charged upon the more valuable property. 
he extent to which this beneficial and inexpensive power is Extent to 
1 is very considerable. It is mostly in the rectification of ^^'^"^'^ 
ndaries, or the exchange oi intermixed lands, and in many 
to facilitate building operations, and embraces annually 
li n 6000 to 10,000 acres, having a value of from 400,000/. to 
CHAPTEE IX. 
Waste Lands and Copyholds. 
1 K past result of the inclosure of waste lands under the control Inclosnre of 
' he Government may be learned from a return to an Order of ^^'"'t^ ^^^^^ '■ 
House of Commons, made in 1873, which showed the ex- 
of commons and common field lands then in England and 
les to be 2,632,000 acres, about one-fourteenth part of the 
lie surface of that country. Probably one million acres of the 
