40 The Agricultural Holdings (^England) Act, 1883. 
In case of default, payment may be enforced bj obtaining an 
order in the County Court (§ 24), which will operate as a judg- 
ment for debt, and will enable the creditor to issue execution. 
Like the costs given by referees and umpire, those arising on 
appeal are in the discretion of the County Court, upon a scale 
to be fixed from time to time by the Lord Chancellor (§ 27), 
Upon " the application of any person interested," the County 
Court may appoint a guardian to represent any landlord or 
tenant, being an infant without a guardian, or of unsound 
mind, not so found by inquisition (§ 25). " Any person inte- 
rested " is vague ; it may be construed to include not only any 
person interested on behalf of the infant or insane man, 
but any person interested in a reference or in litigation under 
the Act, to which such infant or insane man should be 
properly a party. Since the Married Women's Property Act, 
1882, came into operation (January 1, 1883), a next friend 
is not necessary in the case of women entitled to land who 
married after that date, and are affected by the Act. When a 
next friend is still required, as in the case of women married 
before January 1, and not entitled for their separate use, § 26 
repeats the provisions of 1875, which vest such an appointment 
in the County Court. When a woman, married before January 
1, 1883, desires to do " any act under this Act in respect 
of land," her title to which accrued before January 1, her hus- 
band's concurrence is still requisite, and the Judge of any County 
Court is enjoined to examine her apart from her husband, in 
order to see that she understands what she is about to do, and is 
acting freely and voluntarily. " Any act in respect of land " is 
again very vague. All this formality of a separate examination 
cannot be necessary for the purposes of notices, counter-claims, 
and the like ; though it may be necessary for such purposes as 
the charge of a tenant's compensation upon the land. The new 
law, however, follows the old law in this phraseology. 
Charge of Tenant's Compensation. 
Here, again, the very important provisions of 1875, autho- 
rising the landlord to charge the holding with the amount of 
compensation, have served as a model for the new law, though 
in some respects they are varied. In 1875 the County Court 
had power to refuse the landlord's application. The Court now 
retains no discretion ; the landlord has an absolute right to 
saddle the whole holding, or any part of it, with certain outlays 
incurred in improving it (§ 29). No provision appears to bo 
made for including in the charge the cost of permanent im- 
provements executed by the landlord. It is otherwise if these 
