If her brothers shall not give her grain, oil, and wool, according to the value of her share, and shall not content her heart, she may let her field and garden unto any tenant she pleases and her tenant shall maintain her.
Very fewtenant farmers shoot game even when they could do so, leaving that for some neighbouring gentleman with whom they are friendly, and this too without any remuneration, the fact being that winged game does little damage.
In one instance a landlord has built some cottages for his tenant, the tenant paying a certain amount of interest on the sum invested by the landlord.
This is, of course, on farms where the tenant has permission to kill the rabbits.
And it speaks well for his energy and thrift that I heard a bank director not long since remark that he had noticed, after all, with every drawback, the tenant farmers had made as a rule more money in proportion than their landlords.
The foot-passenger is as much benefited as the tenant of the field.
Every tenant received a circular of rules which were to be observed.
To some extent the bitter opposition to change in the position of the labourer, which is thrown in the teeth of the tenant farmer, is the outcome of these very centuries of steady adherence to all that they believed upright and manly.
Sometimes the tenant paid a small percentage on the sum expended; generally this percentage fell off in the course of a year or two.
First, the tenant himself reaps his reward, and justly adds to his private store.
Most people are familiar by this time with the demand of the tenant farmers for some exalted kind of compensation, which in effect is equivalent to tenant-right, i.
It is a tolerably large field, but the meadows held by the same tenantare small, with double mounds and trees, rows of spreading oaks and tall elms; these meadows run up into the strangest nooks and corners.
He does not receive the nominal rent, and if he did, of what value would be so insignificant a sum, the whole of which for a year would not pay a tenth part of the losses sustained by the failure of one tenant farmer.
This tenant does good work, both for himself and for the labourers, the landlord, and the country.
In most parishes there are one or more large tenant farmers who naturally take the lead in their own class, and they would speedily obtain adherents to the movement.
A book should be kept, with the name of every tenant entered into it, and indexed, like a ledger, with the initial letter.
Against the name of the tenant should be placed the area of his holdings, and the numbers of his plots upon the map; and in this book the date of his tenancy, and any change of holding, should be registered.
The tenantseems to think even this shelter effeminate, and speaks regretfully of the old hardy breed which stood all weathers, and wanted no more cover than was afforded by a hawthorn bush.
Plainly put, the rule of parson and squire, tenant and guardian, is repellent to them in these days.
No loss whatever would accrue either to landowner or tenant from a fixed population.
Each plot should have a frontage upon this road, or to branch roads running at right angles to it, so that each tenant could remove his produce without trespassing upon the plot of his neighbour.
Hence the agitation for compensatory clauses, enabling the tenant to safely invest all the capital he can procure in the soil.
At this moment, we have what is called a "Landlord and Tenant Commission" sitting, or sleeping, as it may be.
Whatever truth there may be in both those assertions, there is no gainsaying the fact that the prosperity of Bagnigge Wells dates from a discovery made by a Mr. Hughes, the tenant of the house, in 1757.
A man occupies his own house or a room in a hotel; a man may own a farm of which he is not in possession because a tenant occupies it and is determined to hold it; the proprietor owns the property, but the tenant is in possession.
A tenant does not abuse rented property by "reasonable wear," though that may damage the property and injure its sale; he may abuse it by needless defacement or neglect.
The tenant shall not ---- the property beyond reasonable wear.
It was only when a tenant sold a holding, that the seigneur secured any considerable sum.
Gaspé has described how on such an occasion the seigneur, or some member of his family for him, would be found by the tenant "seated majestically in a large arm chair, near a table covered with green baize cloth.
That little life tenant is always looking out and showing himself in his true colours--whether he knows it or not.
I shall stop on as tenant for the present and Tom can go on working it.
Settled Land Act 1882 the estate of a tenant by curtesy is to be deemed an estate arising under a settlement made by the wife.
He sang of joy; whate'er he knew of sadness He kept for his own heart's peculiar share: So well he sang, the world imagined gladness To be sole tenant there.
Dick, you must know, dealt in a kind of cloth so utterly bad that no tenant on the estate would allow it to approach his skin.
She had known him slightly ever since he had become her mother's tenant and their neighbour at Noyes, but her acquaintance with him had never gone beyond the thinnest conventional civility.
Her name's Blain, and I presume she's the daughter of Mrs. Blain who is tenant of that house in Kensington?
There was something extremely puzzling in this allegation that the calm-mannered, affable Mrs. Blain, whom I had known so well, was the actual tenant of the mysterious house in Phillimore Place.
Neither on that day, nor on the 22nd (date of sale) did either the tenant or the Woodford leaders--R.
That if a tenant falls into arrear for rent, and becomes liable to eviction, whether on title or not, the Court can stay process, if satisfied that his difficulty arises from no fault of his own, and can give him time to pay by instalments.
The best chance yet offered seems to be in the quiet working of Lord Ashbourne's Act, by which the tenant becomes the owner and the landlord is not despoiled.
So long ago as 1860 a Bill was passed providing that no tenant should be evicted for non-payment of rent unless one year's rent in arrear.
Andrew Kelly was not a tenant of Mr. Sampey's, nor had he been for the last five years.
Free sale, by which every yearly tenant may, whether he has had a fair rent fixed or not, sell his tenancy to the highest bidder whenever he desires to leave.
If anyone was aggrieved, the courts were open to him; and we have only to read the list of reduced rents to see how those courts protected the tenant and bore heavily on the landlord.
By Lord Ashbourne's Act the Irish tenant can buy his farm at (an average of) seventeen years' purchase.
The tenant can make his claim for compensation immediately on notice to quit being served, and cannot be evicted until the compensation is paid.
It is hardly necessary to point out that, as these forty-nine years of payment roll by, the interest of the tenant in his holding increases rapidly in value.
That if a tenant wishes to buy his holding, and comes to terms with his landlord, he can borrow money from the Government at 4 per cent.
The full particulars were as follow:--The estate bailiffs visited the house of Molloy, a tenant who owed £30 rent and arrears.
I had told my tenant to dig large holes and large holes he had certainly dug!
I bought them and sent instructions to the tenant at my farm to dig twenty-eight large holes in which to plant them.
It did not go far in the direction of tenant right, and therefore created no controversy with the Whigs.
Free Sale" (of tenant right), and "Fixity of Tenure.
Mr. Chamberlain urged a Tenant Rights Bill for England, which, he said to Sir Charles, "would be a great stroke of business.
But, then, what will our Whig friends say to Radical proposals as to tenant right, improvements, rating, etc.
Mrs. Levi Stewart, the wife of a tenant farmer, is on the witness stand.
Is this customary among the tenant farmers' wives you have known?
When a tenant knows that his rent will be rigorously demanded, he feels that he must provide the money or pay the penalty.
The year before Fred's arrival no tenant had been willing to take it owing to the impoverished state of the land.
Some held out even till the flames surrounded them; but even the most stubborn must have been dislodged when the operation was over, for the devil himself could no longer tenant a crisp and glutinous lump of cinders.
Subsequently he let it to advantage, and his tenant has made no complaints.
