Tlie Agricultural Holdings (^England) Act, 1883. 49 
The only change made In adopting the corresponding pro- 
vision (§ 52) of 1875 is the addition of " railway " to the 
improvements specified in No. 8. The power reserved to 
landlords by § 41 derives new importance from the powers 
conferred on limited owners by the Settled Land Act, 1882, 
already mentioned, a most useful and beneficial measure in con- 
nection with which the name of Lord Cairns will always be grate- 
fully remembered. Limited owners are now able to sell any part 
of the settled estates, except the mansion and park, even without 
the sanction of the trustees, for the purposes of improvements 
authorised by that Act. - As capital may thus be easily raised 
by a tenant for life for developing the settled estate, without 
trenching upon his personalty, it is probable that necessary, 
and even to some extent speculative, improvements will 
become much more usual upon land tied up in settlement. 
The authorised improvements in Lord Cairns's Act include 
most of those specified in § 41, so that the one statute will help 
the other, and capital will be forthcoming in order to carry out 
the various objects for which a landlord may resume possession 
of parts of a holding without otherwise disturbing the tenancy. 
A tenant's interest on the landlord's resumption is amply 
secured. On receiving notice under § 41 he is entitled to 
(a) compensation in respect of improvements made on the land 
which is the subject of notice ; {b) a reduction of rent in respect 
of such land, measured not by its acreage alone, but also by 
any depreciation in value which the rest of the holding may 
suffer by reason of the landlord's resumption, or the use to be 
made of the land so resumed ; or (c) at any time within twenty- 
eight days after receiving notice to quit a part, he may in 
writing tell his landlord that he accepts it as notice to quit the 
entire holding, and such notice will take effect at the expiration, 
of the then current year of tenancy. 
It may be assumed that any notice given bv the landlord 
under § 41 will be subject to the same conditions as are im- 
posed by § 33 as to time in any general notice to quit, and that 
therefore a year's notice must be given, expiring with the year 
of tenancy, unless both landlord and tenant have agreed upon 
six months. The compensation, if any, together with the 
reduction in rent and depreciation In value, if any, of the rest 
of the holding, will be settled, in case of difference, by a 
reference under the Act, but with no power of appeal from the 
decision of referees or umpire. 
Provision as to Limited Owners (§ 42). — .Lest the powers of 
limited owners under this Act should suffer undue restraint 
so far as concerns the improvement of the land and tenants' 
compensation, it Is provided that, subject to the special arrange- 
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