The Agricultural Holdings (England) Act, 1883. 
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a vear later ; that is, in the case of Michaelmas holdings termin- 
able (bv agreement under § 33) bv six months' notice, the Act 
will not hare full effect until after Michaelmas, 1885 ; and if 
terminable bv a year's notice, until after Michaelmas, 1886. 
This view seems to be based upon the assumption that each 
tenancy existing at January 1, 1884, and unaflFected by previous 
notice to quit, is a new tenancy for purposes of notice, giving 
an absolute term for one year, so that no notice can take 
effect during that year. In the case already cited, however, 
Lord Coleridge doubted whether the true view of the Act of 
1^75 was that under it current tenancies became new tenancies 
for purposes of notice.* It may be well here to bear in mind 
that there is a distinction between a six months' notice — i.e., 
six lunar months — and a half-year's notice. The Act provides 
lor a half-year's or year's notice, as the case mav be : and " a 
six months' notice to determine a vearlv tenancy commencing: 
on one of the ordinary feast days (as Lady-Day or Michaelmas) 
means a ' customary six months,' that is, from one of the usual 
quarter days to the quarter day next but one following, though 
such six months should exceed or fall short of the number of 
days which constitute half a year. Consequently, a notice 
served on the 26th of !March to quit on the 29th of September 
then next, is not a valid notice." f 
FixirEES. 
Tenant's Property in Fixtui'es, Machinery, S^-c. (§ 34). — Before 
the Act of 1875, tenants who, with the consent of their land- 
lords, had put up at their own expense farm or other buildings, 
and engines or machinery for agricultural purposes, or for mixed 
purposes of trade and agriculture, were allowed to remove these 
tixtures, if they had not been erected or put up in pursuance of 
some obligation by the tenant ; but the landlord had an option 
cf purchase, the price being settled by two referees or an 
umpire. If the landlord did not exercise his option, the tenant 
was bound, in removing these fixtures, not to damage the 
premises, which were to be put " in like or as good plight and 
condition as the same were in before the erection of the thin?s 
so removed." X 
The Act of 1875 altered the law in favour of tenants by giving 
them the same property in engines, machinery, or other fixtures 
atfixed to the holding, notwithstanding the absence of the land- 
lord' s consent ; in spite, indeed, of his dissent, unless there was 
• 3 L. B., C. P. D., p. 3&4. + Mori^an r. Davies, 3 L. E., C. P. D., p. 260. 
J 14 & 15 Vict. c. 25. 
