Tlie Aqrimltural Holdings (England) Act, 1883. 59 
there will inevitably be ; but these agreements will, as a rule, 
embody the " fair and reasonable " compensation mentioned in 
the statute. In the long run it cannot be the interest of either 
landlords or tenants to invite litigation by trying, on the one 
band, to escape from paying the fair compensation contemplated 
by Parliament, or, on the other hand, by making unreasonable 
claims in order to pile up compensation. Allowing for excep- 
tional cases, which occur now and must be expected hereafter, 
we may fairly trust to the self-interest of the two parties, to say 
nothing of the old confidence which for so many ages has 
governed the relations of English landlords and tenants, to make 
the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1883, in practice a useful and 
beneficial measure. That it is meanwhile " an honest attempt 
to settle a difficult question " is a judgment pronounced in its 
favour by a thoroughly competent as well as impartial witness.* 
AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS (ENGLAND) ACT, 1883. 
[46 & 47 Vict. Ch. 61.] 
AEKANGEMENT OF SECTIONS. 
PAET I. 
Impkovements. 
Compensation for Improvements. 
Section 
1. General right of tenant to compensation. 
'As to Improvements executed lefore the Commencement of Act. 
2. Eestriction as to improvements before Act. 
As to Improvements executed after the Commencement of Act, 
3. Consent of landlord as to improvement in First Schedule, Part L 
4. Notice to lantllord as to improvement in First Schedide, Part II. 
5. Eeservation as to existing and future contracts of tenancy. 
Hecjulations as to Compensation for Improvements. 
6. Eegulations as to compensation for improvements. 
Procedure. 
7. Notice of intended claim. 
8. Compensation agreed or settled by reference. 
9. Appointment of referee or referees and umpire. 
10. Eequisition for appointment of umpire by Land Commissionei s, &c. 
The Dxike of Kichmond and Gordon, in his speccb at Chichester already cited. 
