It was more successful in preventing free sale, maintaining the doctrine that, rent or no rent, no evictionswere to be allowed.
That had been passed, and it was probably impossible to make it work at all smoothly without checking evictions by dealing with old arrears.
The manorial officials, who in the South were cursed as the agents of evictions and rack-renting, were in the North much concerned with keeping tenants on the soil.
For a similar case of evictions by Delavale, showing how they were carried out, ibid.
The latter remark can hardly have been true of the great and sudden evictionswhich caused rioting and depopulation, and evoked the long series of statutes which begin in 1489.
In most villages before extensive evictions begin that mechanism moves very slowly; property is widely diffused, and the residuum must have been small.
Scarcely recovered from the stunning blow of the famine, she was undergoing in a fresh dose of clearances and evictions the result of that masterpiece of legislative unwisdom, the Encumbered Estates Act.
The traditions and recollections of the many evictions which have occurred during this century have often caused the motives of the best landlords to be suspected and their most benevolent acts to be misunderstood by their tenants.
A lately published book on Ireland has been welcomed by critics, and I suppose by readers, because in it is no mention of evictions and crowbar brigades and horrors of which newspapers make good capital.
And yet of Scotch evictions but comparatively little has been heard.
Irish evictions have offered so convenient a theme to party strife, that the sufferings of the unhappy Highland crofters have not always met with the compassion they were so well calculated to inspire.
Miss Mathilde Blind's poem is the tragic epic of the old evictions in the Highlands of Scotland.
These evictions came of the adoption of the Plan of Campaign, under the direction of Mr. Dillon, M.
All the evictions have since been carried out, and the Land Corporation men are at work upon the estate!
His connection with the Glenbehy evictions is referred to on page 10, and in Note F of the Appendix I give an interesting account, furnished me by Mr. Colomb, of his activity in connection with the case of the Misses Curtin at Firies.
He took a great part in promoting the refusal to pay which led to the famous evictions of last year.
One of them said that before the evictions came off certain of the National Leaguers visited him, and told him he must resist the officers.
One week afterwards, on the 29th of March, he got up in the rooms of the National League in Dublin, and openly declared that "the Luggacurren evictions differed from most otherevictions in this, that they were able to pay the rent.
At eight o'clock this morning I left the Harcourt Street station for Inch, to take a look at the scene of the Coolgreany evictions of last summer.
The Northwich election was pending (Opposition cheers), and the Irish evictions were an awkward topic for a Tory candidate.
On the day I reached Mitchelstown, on the appeal of these poor people, I found that evictions had already been carried out on the non-residential holdings, where there was no possibility of resistance.
Up to March, 1846, evictions arising from the Famine had not really begun, although preparations were being made for them; so that those recorded in the pamphlet were carried out under no special pressure of circumstances whatever.
It is not to be inferred from this, that evictions were rare in Ireland immediately preceding the Famine.
But it will also be remembered that evictions primarily took place for grazing purposes; and further, that a small holding in Scotland is not quite the same as a small holding in England.
Evictions took place for the object that was at the moment most profitable.
Deer and sporting rights (after game laws were enacted) soon became more profitable than sheep, and it is amusing to find controversialists of to-day attempting to show that evictions never took place on account of deer forests.
All that could be called in question was the theory that he had based upon those facts--namely, that evictions were made for the purpose of making room for more deer.
The Sollas evictions did not satisfy the evicting craze which his lordship afterwards so bitterly regretted.
What he had seen proved to be as bad as any of the evictions of the past, except that it applied in this instance only to one family.
The evictions were carried out in 1828, the process being attended with many acts of heartless cruelty on the part of the laird’s representatives.
The result of the Strathglass evictions was that only two of the ancient native stock remained in possession of an inch of land on the estate of Chisholm.
The evictions in Knoydart, which had lately occupied the attention of the press and all thinking men, were cruel enough; but there a refuge was provided for a portion of the evicted, and ships for their conveyance to a distant land.
It succeeded only in making arbitrary evictionsmore costly for the landlord, it gave the tenant no fixity of tenure since the compensation for disturbance was inadequate.
The Act of 1870 had been passed to prevent arbitrary evictions and to secure to the tenant compensation for improvements, and in certain cases for disturbance.
Several attempts to carry out these evictions failed.
These were evictions which the Sheriff of Kerry was never able to carry out.
The landlords, or the harsher among them, try to enforce rents by evictions; evictions are resisted by outrages and boycotting.
In the first of these, he appears to approve of the system of forced labour established by the Act; in the second, he denies the evictions that took place in July when he spoke, and those that took place subsequently.
The cold-blooded evictions and the Draconian principle against living anywhere, except as serfs, are inconsequential because they have not yet touched Mr. Jabavu's person.
As the result of evictions under the Act, some of the Churches on farms have ceased to exist.
Evictions around here were numerous, but beyond the inevitable hardships of families suddenly driven from home, they had not suffered any great amount of damage.
He had heard alarming stories about evictions wherever he went.
The paper's reference to this case will also illustrate the easy manner in which these outrageous evictions are reported in white newspapers.
One English farmer wrote to the `Farmer's Weekly' that the evictions were effective, but at the same time he regretted that "as long as the Native kept to the public road he still had a resting place for the hollow of his foot.
To make room for these large-scale operations, evictions must go on, and as the process proceeds the numbers must be augmented of those who are unfit to work for hire and unable to leave the country.
In the two years that followed the Antrim evictions of 1772, thirty thousand protestants left Ulster for a land where legal robbery could not be permitted, and where those who sowed the seed could reap the harvest.
Reference here is not made to evictions awful crimes that commenced in 1784, but to the change, desolation and misery growing out of the calamity at Culloden.
Some of this winter's evictions have been inhuman spectacles, fit only for a barbarous country and a barbarous age.
Much sympathy has been excited by the reports of cruel evictions in Ireland, to gratify the merciless avarice of landlords, and for the justice of these reports we need not depend on Irish testimony alone.
The evictions of the last third of a century and the depopulation of large tracts of country have filled the hearts of the people with revenge, and, rightly or wrongly, they not only blame the landlord but the occupier of the land.
The landlord was supposed to be a model landlord, and his estates were held up at the very time as models; yet evictions had been fearfully and constantly carried out on them.
Well might the Times say: "These evictions are a hideous scandal; and the bishop should rather die than be guilty of such a crime.
As my sworn evidence, on which I was cross-examined in the Parnell Commission, showed, I had only ten evictions in six years among two thousand tenants.
There were some evictions carried out at Farranfore on the estate of Lord Kenmare, by the sub-sheriff, Mr. Harnett, and a force of military and police numbering about one hundred and thirty.
It so happened that some bad harvests had temporarily increased the difficulties of the tenantry, and there was no doubt that large numbers of evictions were taking place in Ireland.
Evictions were made on a scale which elicited from Sir Robert Peel an expression of the deepest abhorrence.
Evictions and boycottings are the order of the day.
The police feel just as exasperated against Miss Parnell, who attends allevictions as a sympathizer with the tenants, and reports all the proceedings.
They tell me that the reason of the great number of evictions at present is to prevent the wretched tenants from having any benefit under the promised Land Bill.
Every local paper has notices of evictions here and there.
There are evictions and harassments flying about, as thick as a flight of sparrows through Innishowen at present.
My driver, a rather timid lad, told me he would not like to drive the police to these evictions and then return after dark the same way; he would be afraid.
Evictions are flying about as thick as "the leaves of the forest when autumn hath flown.
Spent a Sunday here and after church became aware that the too, too celebrated Miss Gardiner, with her friend Miss Pringle, had arrived at the hotel on their way to Dublin, on evictions bent.
They tell here that these evictionsinvolved accidentally the priest of the parish and an old woman over ninety, who lay on her death-bed.
It has fallen like a spell over Ireland though, and evictions are hurried through as if they thought their time was short.
A little after we arrived the Carndonagh contingent of the police on duty at the evictions came driving in, horses and men both having a wilted look.
They add that the bishops believe that Home Rule would not affect the union or the supremacy of the Crown, and urge the suspension of evictions until the land question has been settled.
The distressing evictions of the great cities, and the selling out of thousands of western farmers under foreclosing mortgages, are preparing a terrible mass of discontented population to whom a social convulsion would not be alarming.
About twenty-four thousand evictions occurred last year in the city of New York, and this indicated more than a hundred thousand human beings turned homeless into the streets, generally in a penniless condition!
The refusal of the police for the enforcement of evictions would abolish rent throughout the country.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "evictions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
