382 = i IS English Land Law. 
2. In removing any fixture, no " avoidable damage " must 
be done to any building, or other part of the holding. 
3. Immediately after removing any fixture, the tenant must 
make good all damage occasioned by such removal. 
4. The tenant cannot remove any fixture unless he gives the 
landlord one month's previous notice, in writing, of the intended 
removal. 
5. At any time within the month of notice, the landlord (as 
under the Act of 1851) has an option of purchasing any fixture 
comprised in the notice of removal. He may thus select which 
he thinks worth purchase, and leave the tenant to remove the 
rest. This option must be signified to the tenant, in writing, 
before the end of the month ; and the fixture selected by the 
landlord becomes his property, and must be left by the tenant 
who will be paid for it according to its fair value to an in- 
coming tenant. If the parties differ, the value is to be settlet 
by reference, but without power of appeal ; the decision of thi 
referee, or referees, and umpire, will be final. 
Results of Act. This is the Statute which the English Legislature have pas 
recognising the just confidence reposed in most English land 
lords by their tenantry, but recognising, too, in the words o 
the Prime Minister, that " laws should be founded, not oi 
honour, but on justice." 
Such a statute, embodying a principle previously unknow, 
in English legislation, could hardly be expected to be at one 
and completely incorporated into contracts of agricultur; 
tenancy. Hitherto, therefore, experience shows that both lane 
lords and tenants have been timid in adopting the provisior 
of the Act. With a view to ascertain what had really been i 
beneficial results, circulars were sent, towards the end of tl 
year 1876, on the part of the Farmers' Club, to the leadir 
farmers and land agents, as well as to the various -Chambers ■ 
Agriculture, throughout the country, and 258 answers were r 
ceived. The results of these answers are summed up in an abi 
paper * by the Secretary of the Club, Mr. Druce, as follows :— | 
Firstly, as a general rule, the Act is excluded by landlords | 
respect of tenancies from year to year, or at will, which wej 
current when it came into operation.! Secondly, it is also ; 
a large extent excluded in respect of tenancies which began sin' 
* 'Jouniiil of the Farmers' Club,' February, 1877, p. 13. 
t To this gencnil rule, liowevcr, important exceptions nro noted in i 
Ap))cndix. For exami)le, Karl Browulow, tlio Karl of Lonsdale, and Li 
'J'redegar arc among \hr Inndlonls who at onco boldly adopted the Act. On 
other hand, instances might he given in whicli, as upon Sir Kdward Kcrrisc 
CBtiite, the tenants, having the choice given to them, preferred ou the whoI( 
remain under existing agreements. 
