72 The Agricultural Holdings (England) Act, 1883. 
make any agreement, or do or have done to him any act in relation to im- 
provements in respect of which compensation is payahle under this Act which 
he might give or make or do or have done to him if he were in the case of an 
estate of inheritance owner thereof in fee, and in the case of a leasehold 
possessed of the whole estate in the leasehold. 
43. Provision in case of reservation of rent. — When, by any Act of 
Parliament, deed, or other instrument, a lease of a holding is authorised to 
be made, provided that the best rent, or reservation in the nature of rent, is 
by such lease reserved, then, whenever any lease of a holding is, under such 
authority, made to the tenant of the same, it shall not be necessary, in 
estimating such rent or reservation, to take into account against the tenant 
the increase (if any) in the value of such holding arising from any improve- 
ments made or paid for by him on such holding. 
PART II. 
Distress. 
44. Limitation of distress in respect of amount and time. — After the 
commencement of this Act it shall not be lawful for any landlord entitled to 
the rent of any holding to which this Act applies to distrain for rent, which 
became due in respect of such holding, more than one year before the making 
of such distress, except in the case of arrears of rent in respect of a holding 
to which this Act ajiplies existing at the time of the passing of this Act, 
which arrears shall be recoverable by distress up to the first day of January 
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five to the same extent as if this 
Act had not passed. 
Provided that where it appears that according to the ordinary course of 
dealing between the landlord and tenant of a holding the payment of the 
rent of such holding has been allowed to be deferred until the expiration of a 
quarter of a year or half a year after the date at which such rent legally 
became due, then for the purpose of this section the rent of such holding 
shall be deemed to have become due at the expiration of such quarter or 
half year as aforesaid, as the case may be, and not at the date at which 
it legally became due. 
45. Limitation of distress in respect of things to he distrained. — Where 
live stock belonging to another person has been taken in by the tenant of a 
holding to which this Act applies to be ftd at a fair price agreed to be paid 
for such feeding by the owner of such stock to the tenant, such stock shall 
not be distrained by the landlord for rent where there is other sufiicient 
distress to be found, and if so distrained by reason of other sufiicient distress 
not being found, there shall not be recovered by such distress a sum exceeding 
the amount of the price so agreed to be paid lor the feeding, or if any part of 
such price has been paid exceeding the amount remaining unpaid, and it 
shall be lawful for the owner of such stock, at any time before it is sold, to 
redeem such stock by paying to the distrainer a sum equal to such price as 
aforesaid, and any ])aymcnt so made to the distrainer shall be in full dis- 
charge as against the tenant of any sum of the like amount which would be 
otherwise due from the owner of the stock to the tenant in res])cct of the 
price of feeding : Provided always, that so long as any portion of such live 
stock shall remain on the said holding the right to distrain such jwrtion shall 
continue to the full extent of the price originally agreed to be j aid for the 
feeding of the whole of such live slock, or if part of _such price has been bo7iu 
fide paid to the tenant under the agreement, then to the full extent of the 
price then remaining unpaid. 
Agricultural or other machinery which is the hoiiu fide property of a 
person other tl an the tenant, and is on the premises of the tenant under a 
