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CONTENTS. 
Chapter I. — Succession and Ownership of Land. 
Feudal Tenure — Right of Alienation of Land — Manors — Military Tenures 
abolished — Primogeniture — Gavelkind — Limited operation of Primogeni- 
ture Law — " Estates tail " — The Statute De Bonis — Fines and Eecoveries 
— Settlements — Entail — Settled Estates — Not prescribed by Law— Power 
of Entail limited by Law — Examples of English Settlement— Leaseholds 
regarded as Personalty — Tenancy for Life — Leases by Life Tenants — Per- 
manent Improvements, cost of, charged on Land — The Law of Mortmain — 
General policy of English Law adverse to perpetual succession in Land 
Pages 71-83 
Chapter II. — Yearly Tenancies. 
Agricultural Tenants — Tenancies at Will — Emblements — Yearly Tenancies — 
Advantages and Disadvantages to Landowner — Their cfl'ect upon Tenants 
— Local Customs — Effect of Customs — Continuing Tenancies Pages 83-90 
Chapter III. — Forms of Agreement. 
Written Agreements — Forms of Written Contract — Memorandum of Terms 
of Tenancy — Agreement for Tenancy — Freedom of Contract — Exclusion of 
Customs must be express .. .. .. .. ,. Pages 90-94 
Chapter IV. — Leases. 
Leasing powers of Life Tenants — Legal effect of Lease — Tenant's Covenants 
— Covenants as to Husbandry — End of Tenancy — Payments to Outgoing 
Tenant — Landlord's Covenants — Arbitration — Forfeiture .. Pages 94-99 
Chapter V. — 27*6 Agricultural Holdings Act. 
Farmers — Legal doctrine as to Emblements — Founded upon Public Policy — 
Growth of Tenant's Claims — Legal presumption against — First recognition 
of, by Statute — Its permissive character — Unexhausted Improvements 
assumed to be the property of Tenant — Application of Act — Tenant's title 
to Compensation — First-class Improvements — Their presumed Duration— 
If the Landlord is absolute Owner — Previous Consent of Landlord — If Land- 
lord's Ownership is limited — " Letting Value " of Holding must be increased 
by Tenant's improvements— Questions as to Tenant's Outlay — Improvements 
of Second Class — Duration of Tenant's Claim for — Landlord's prior consent 
VOL. XIV. — S. S. 2 B 
