ARRANGEMENT OF CLAUSES.

Preliminary.

Clauses.

1. Short title.

2. Commencement of Act.

3. Extent of Act.

4. Interpretation.

Compensation for Tenant's Outlay.

5. Right of tenant to compensation for growing crops, manure, &c. 6. Right of tenant to compensation for improvements made after

notice.

7. Implied agreement by tenant to farm well.

8. Measure of tenant's compensation.

9. Deductions from tenant's compensation.

10. Assessment and recovery of tenant's compensation.

11. Appointment of umpire by public authority.

12. Landlord's securities against fraud.

Compensation for Damage by Game.

13. Compensation to tenant for damage done by game.

Tenant's right to remove Buildings.

14. Power to tenant to remove fixtures erected at his own expense.

Execution of permanent Improvements by mutual Agreement. 15. Power for landlord and tenant to agree as to execution of permanent improvements.

16. Time of notice to quit.

Notice to quit.

Clauses.

Security for Tenant on Change of Landlord.

17. Rights of tenant on sale by or death of landlord.

Exceptions and Savings.

18. Exception as to non-agricultural holdings.

19. Exception as to local customs.

20. General saving of rights.

Repeal.

21. Repeal of 14 & 15 Vict. c. 25. s. 3.

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Secure Compensation to Agricultural Tenants, and otherwise A.D. 1875. to amend the Law relating to Agricultural Tenancies, in England.

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HEREAS it is expedient to secure compensation to agricultural tenants for outlay beneficial to their successors, and to facilitate and define the application of capital to land, in England: Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and 5 with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in the present Parliament assembled, as follows:

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Preliminary.

1. This Act may be cited as The Tenants Compensation (Eng- Short title. land) Act, 1875.

2. This Act shall commence on the thirty-first day of December Commenceone thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.

3. This Act shall not extend to Scotland or Ireland.

4. In this Act

ment of Act.

Extent of
Act.

Interpreta

"Contract of tenancy" means a letting of land for a term of years, tion.
or from year to year, or at will:

"Determination of tenancy" means the cesser of a contract of
tenancy by reason of effluxion of time or from any other cause:
"Landlord " means the person entitled to possession of land
subject to a contract of tenancy, or entitled to receipt of rent
reserved by a contract of tenancy, whatever be the extent of
his interest, and although his interest is incumbered or charged,
by himself or his settlor, or otherwise, to any extent, the party
to a contract of tenancy under which land is actually occupied
being alone deemed to be the landlord in relation to the actual
occupier:

"Tenant" means the holder of land under a contract of tenaney:
"Landlord" or "tenant" includes the executors, administrators,

assigns, husband, guardian, committee of the estate, or trustees
in bankruptcy of a landlord or tenant: