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CONTEMPORARY AGRICULTURAL LAW. 
I. — Legislation. 
AGRICULTURAL interests are not greatly affected by the 
legislation of 1913, but there are some enactments which 
should be noticed. 
The first of these is the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1913 
(2 and 3 Geo. 5 c. 21). It was passed to avoid the effect of 
the decision in Re Kedwell and Flint <Jc Co. (1911, 1 K.B., 797 ; 
80 L.J.K.B., 707, noted on page 189 of Yol. 72, R.A.S.E. Journal), 
where it was held that the provision in Section 61 of the 
Agricultural Holdings (England) Act, 1883, that a tenancy 
from year to year current at the commencement of the Act 
should cease to be a tenancy “ under a contract of tenancy 
current at the commencement of the Act ” on the first day on 
which either landlord or tenant could, the one by giving notice 
to the other immediately after the commencement of the Act 
cause such tenancy to determine, must be read into the Market 
Gardeners’ Compensation Act, 1895. The result of the case 
was that where land cultivated as a market garden was held 
under a yearly tenancy at the date of the commencement of 
the Market Gardeners’ Compensation Act, 1895 (January 1, 
1896), and continued to be held under the same contract of 
tenancy down to the present time, inasmuch as it might long 
since have been determined by notice to quit, it could not be 
treated as a tenancy current at the commencement of the Act 
so as to give the tenant the right to compensation conferred by 
the Market Gardeners’ Compensation Act, 1895, upon tenants 
under such tenancies of a holding at that date in use or 
cultivation as a market garden with the knowledge of 
the landlord. It should be stated that the Agricultural 
Holdings Act, 1908, which repealed the Acts of 1883 and 
1895, by Section 42, Sub-section 2, preserved the rights 
of tenants under tenancies current on January 1, 1896, 
but provided that where such a tenancy was a tenancy 
from year to year the compensation should be such (if any) 
as could have been claimed if the Act of 1908 had not been 
passed, thus making it necessary in such a case to revert to 
the previous Acts of 1883 and 1895 to ascertain the tenant’s 
rights. This proviso is repealed by the Act of 1913, which 
declares that a tenancy from year to year under a contract of 
tenancy current on January 1, 1896, shall not be deemed, to 
have been determined thereafter by virtue of any provision 
contained in Section 61 of the Agricultural Holdings (England) 
Act, 1883. The effect of the Act is to enable any tenant who 
continues to hold under a tenancy current on January 1, 1896, 
