Browsing JSSISI: 1870 to 1876, Vol. VI, Parts XL to XLIX by Date of Publication
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Report of the Council at the opening of the twenty-sixth session of the Society
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1873)The Council have much pleasure in submitting the following report to the members. During the past session some important papers were read on Jurisprudence, The President read a paper on the ?Practicability of Codifying ... -
Report on the best means of facilitating land transfer, by means of local registry
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1874)The question of the comparative merits of large and small farms has been one of the best debated in Political Economy. The controversy cannot be said to be yet terminated. But some portions of the field have become neutral ... -
Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: twenty seventh session 1873/1874, fourth to sixth meetings
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An account of the progress that has been made in describing the differences between the laws in force in England and those in force in Ireland; with some of the leading points not already noticed, and suggestions for the most convenient division of the subject
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1874)In pursuance of the suggestion in the report of the committee of the council, I have prepared the following outline: An investigation of the differences between the laws in England and those in Ireland, divided into eight ... -
Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: twenty seventh session 1873/1874, second to third meetings
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Report of committee of the council on (1) Mr. Jephson?s suggestions for securing greater attention to suggestions for amendments in the law, contained in reports and papers read before the society; and on (2) Mr. Jonathan Pim's suggestions for obtaining information as respects the differences which now exist between the laws in force in England, and those in force in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1874)The committee, appointed at the April meeting of the Council, to consider Mr. Jephson's and Mr. Pim's suggestions, met on Tuesday, 27th of April: present, Mr. Jonathan Pim, Vice-President, in the chair; Mr. Jephson, Mr. ... -
Report of the Council at the opening of the twenty-eighth session
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1874)The plan, introduced this time twelve-months, of applying to the management of the Barrington Lecture Trust Fund the change which had been previously applied to the public funds given towards scientific instruction in the ... -
Report of committee on suggestions for diminishing the excessive summoning of jurors in the county and city of Dublin
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1874)The committee met at Mssrs. Pim's, 22, William-street, on Friday the 12th June, Alderman Campbell, J.P., in the chair; also present, Mr. Frederic W. Pim, Mr. Richard W. Kelly, Mr. Joseph T. Pim, Mr. Thomas Edmondson, and ... -
The recommendations of the Land Transfer Commission of 1869, considered with especial reference to their applicability to transfer of land in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1874)One of the last letters written by Richard Cobden contains these remarkable words: ?The Land Question has a wider bearing than has yet been given it in our public discussions; and it will not be seriously entertained by ... -
Report on the application of the principles recommended by the Judicature Commission to the Irish County Courts
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1874)Since the subject of this report was entrusted to me, the principles recommended by the Judicature Commission has received the sanction of the Legislature, and become the law; and the year that has just now closed will ... -
Address at the opening of the Twenty-eighth Session
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1874)I cannot commence this address without first thanking you for having elected me your President. The names of the distinguished men who have held this office cast a lustre around it; and I count it no mean honour to be ... -
Report of the Council at the opening of the twenty-ninth session of the Society
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1875)Three out of the six ordinary meetings were devoted to the important subject of Local Government. Mr. Joseph T. Pim read a paper on ?Municipal Government and Taxation?, a matter of growing importance, having regard to the ... -
Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: twenty eighth session 1874/1875, second to fifth meetings
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The Law of Judgments and the jurisdiction of the sheriff in selling land, considered with reference to the complaints of the County Down people on the subject: (1) That the Law of Judgments operates unequally and harshly on leasehold interests and upon yearly tenancies, (2) That the jurisdiction of the sheriff in selling leasehold and yearly tenancies under the writ of ?fieri facias? is burdensome and oppressive, (3) That the creditor who involves the tenant in the heaviest law costs can get an unjust priority over other creditors, (4) That the judgment creditor can in many cases confiscate the rights of the widowed mother and the younger brothers and sisters of the tenant, (5) That sales by ?fieri facias? is a new procedure that has sprung out of the Land Act
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1875)The Law of Judgments and the jurisdiction of the sheriff in selling land, considered with reference to the complaints of the County Down people on the subject: (1) that the Law of Judgments operates unequally and harshly ... -
Appointment of charity organization committee
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1875)At the December meeting of the Council of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, it was resolved to appoint a committee to consider and make suggestions upon the subject of charity organization. (1) To ... -
Municipal government and taxation
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1875)The wide and complicated question of local government and taxation, probably occupies more public attention at the present time than any other question of home politics. It is my purpose this evening to consider only that ... -
Suggested practical checks on excessive drinking and habitual drunkenness
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1875)In the session of 1871, the late Government introduced into Parliament a Licensing Bill, and the late Mr. Donald Dalrymple introduced a Habitual Drunkards' Bill. Neither Bill became law; and in the interval between the ... -
Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: twenty eighth session 1874/1875, sixth to seventh meetings
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On the exclusion of the evidence of accused persons
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1875)Some apology is, I feel, due to the Society for the selection of a subject so often discussed here and elsewhere; yet when the topic is a proposed reform, it can hardly be said to be exhausted until either it has been ... -
Mr. MacNeel Caird's essay, in ?The Cobden Club Series?, on local government and taxation in Scotland, considered with reference to the suggestions it affords upon the following questions: (1) road authorities in Scotland and Ireland; (2) Scotch and Irish local courts; (3) union rating; (4) the Scotch law for securing improvements in town holdings
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1875)At the last meeting of Council of this Society, Mr. Jonathan Pim, made a suggestion that the recently published series of essays obtained by the Cobden Club on Local Government and Local Taxation in England, Scotland, ...