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Excerpt from Banded Ministry: And the Upas Tree
Tenant-right, minus the right to transfer the pos session, means neither more nor less than A minus A, and the formula to get its value is the simple equation A - A=x - quere the value of as? Every school-boy would answer - zero. But the majority of the highest court decided, that the Land Act enacts, that the value of a: is A, and expunges - A from the equation. Two judges of the court hold the opposite opinion. This makes a case, coercive on the Legislature, to pass a declaratory Act, by which to clear this doubt, and relieve the subject from endless litigation. The court decided, that the landlord must pay the tenants' costs, although he had no other way of escaping the excess of £96, demanded by the tenant, than by defending the claim. There being no appeal, the case governs all future cases, and makes it safe for the tenant to make an extortionate demand, and thus creates a necessity for a suit, if the extortion be not sub mitted to. The assertion that such a law is a legis lative boon to the country needs no further commen tary than this.
Having read the Bill, I collect from its compli cated provisions what appears to me its essential principle - viz., to establish an Irish University, to which alone the right of conferring learned degrees in Arts shall belong. It is to be both a teaching, and an examining college, as well as University. From its curriculum, and from its examinations, Theology.
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Excerpt from Banded Ministry: And the Upas Tree This pamphlet was in print and nearly ready for delivery to the booksellers, when the Prime Minister's statement of the University Education Bill was published. He took credit for the alleged benefits arising from the Church Act and Land Act; and, for proof, referred to the statistics of crime, with which those Acts have no more to do than they have with the longitude. The case of Stevenson v. Lord Leitrim, on the construction of the Land Act, is stated at page 57. That Act, in general terms, made the Ulster tenant-right custom binding on landlords; and, at the same time, ignored the most important duty of a wise and benevolent legislature, in omitting to define what that custom was, capable, as it was, and is, of clear and adequate definition, viz., the right of the tenant to sell and transfer his possession to such substitute, as the landlord could not reasonably object to receive, as tenant in his place, at the old rent, or a revised rent. In some localities, and on some estates, there were certain known modifications of the custom - such as limiting the price, in order to prevent the new tenant from parting his whole capital, and entering on the land without the means of working it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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