English Land and English Landlords. An Enquiry Into the Origin and Character of the English Land System, with Proposals for Its Reform ...Cobden Club, 1881 - 515 páginas |
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... equal size with those of the chief or the more powerful mem- bers of the clan . Part of the district held by the village - community was owned jointly by the whole , and occupied as common pasturage , or common wood- land ; another part ...
... equal size with those of the chief or the more powerful mem- bers of the clan . Part of the district held by the village - community was owned jointly by the whole , and occupied as common pasturage , or common wood- land ; another part ...
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... equal tenacity and an equally firm belief in its beneficial effects . With these facts before us , we cannot regard the agrarian constitution of England as a spontaneous or necessary development of our soil , our climate , our ...
... equal tenacity and an equally firm belief in its beneficial effects . With these facts before us , we cannot regard the agrarian constitution of England as a spontaneous or necessary development of our soil , our climate , our ...
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... equal partibility became the almost universal custom , not- withstanding that American landowners are by no means destitute of family pride , and enjoy very nearly 1 In one of these cases , a man in humble circumstances , having no ...
... equal partibility became the almost universal custom , not- withstanding that American landowners are by no means destitute of family pride , and enjoy very nearly 1 In one of these cases , a man in humble circumstances , having no ...
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... equal division recognized as the dictate of natural equity by the great body of merchants , tradespeople , and professional men , as well as by the labouring classes throughout Great Britain and Ireland ; in short , by the middle and ...
... equal division recognized as the dictate of natural equity by the great body of merchants , tradespeople , and professional men , as well as by the labouring classes throughout Great Britain and Ireland ; in short , by the middle and ...
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... equal benefit of all . Even the rude wills and settlements drawn up by priests or schoolmasters for Irish peasant - farmers , among whom the instincts of proprietorship are cherished in their intensest form , embody the principle of ...
... equal benefit of all . Even the rude wills and settlements drawn up by priests or schoolmasters for Irish peasant - farmers , among whom the instincts of proprietorship are cherished in their intensest form , embody the principle of ...
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acreage acres Adam Smith agricultural labourers allotments amount Arthur Young average barley bushels capital cattle cent century charge common corn Corn Laws cost Cottagers crops cultivated custom Cwts districts Domesday Book duty eldest Enclosure England and Wales English Land System entails equal estimated family settlements farm farmers favour fee simple feudal freeholders Greater Yeomen Henry VII holdings houses improvements income increase intestacy landed property landlords landowners leases less Lesser Yeomen limited owner limited ownership Lord Lord Cairns manure meat ment mortgages nearly parish peasant Peers period personalty persons Poor Law population possession price of wheat Primogeniture produce profit proportion Public Bodies purchase quarter rates Real Property realised rent rental rural shillings Small Proprietors soil Squires statute taxation tenant-farmers tenant-in-tail tenant-right tenants tenure tion towns United Kingdom village villeins Vols wages Waste wheat whole younger children
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Página 24 - Inclosures at that time began to be more frequent, whereby arable land, which could not be manured without people and families, was turned into pasture, which was easily rid by a few herdsmen ; and tenances for years, lives, and at will, whereupon much of the yeomanry lived, were turned into demesnes.
Página 64 - In families where the estates are kept up from one generation to another, settlements are made every few years for this purpose ; thus in the event of a marriage, a life estate merely is given to the husband ; the wife has an allowance for...
Página 31 - They are also for the most part farmers to gentlemen, or at the leastwise artificers, and with grazing, frequenting of markets, and keeping of servants (not idle servants, as the gentlemen do, but such as get both their own and part of their master's living), do come to great wealth, insomuch that many of them are able and do buy the lands of unthrifty gentlemen...
Página 97 - In Scotland more than one-fifth, perhaps more than one-third part of the whole lands of the country, are at present supposed to be under strict entail.
Página 467 - Living by ; and also to raise weekly or otherwise (by Taxation of every Inhabitant, Parson, Vicar, and other, and of every Occupier of Lands, Houses, Tithes Impropriate, Propriations of Tithes, Coal Mines or saleable Underwoods in the said Parish...
Página 43 - ... upon by the king or lord paramount for aids, whenever his eldest son was to be knighted, or his eldest daughter married ; not to forget the ransom of his own person. The heir, on the death of his ancestor, if of full age, was plundered of the first emoluments arising from his inheritance, by way of relief and primer seisin; and if under age, of the whole of his estate during infancy.
Página 83 - With scarcely any exception, the revenue drawn in the form of rent, from the ownership of the soil, has been at least doubled in every part of Great Britain since 1790.
Página 64 - ... father, who is tenant for life, to bar the entail with all the remainders. Dominion is thus again acquired over the property, which dominion is usually exercised in a re-settlement on the next generation ; and thus the property is preserved in the family.