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Browsing by Author Hancock, W. Neilson
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| Preview | Issue Date | Title | Author(s) | | 1871 | A comparison of the law of poor removals and chargeability in England, Scotland, and Ireland, with suggestions of a plan of assimilation, and a remedy for hardships now caused by removals. | Hancock, W. Neilson |
| 1876 | Complaints against bankers in Ireland on account of the saved capital of Ireland not being lent to a sufficient extent to the farmers and small owners of land in Ireland, considered, and traced to (1) defective state of law as to sheriff's sales; (2) want of local jurisdiction in equity and bankruptcy; (3) want of local map registration of such interests; and (4) the unreformed state of offices of clerk of the peace, sub-sheriff, and sheriff s bailiff, with suggestions for the reform of these offices | Hancock, W. Neilson |
| 1849 | Compulsory use of native manufactures | Hancock, W. Neilson |
| 1861 | A consideration of the discoveries of gold and silver in the sixteenth century, with a view to point out the effects to be anticipated from the recent discoveries of gold. — Silver proposed as a substitute for a gold standard, to prevent the anticipated rise in all prices to three times their former amount | Hancock, W. Neilson |
| 1879 | The cost of adopting a complete system of public prosecution in England, as illustrated by the results of the working of the Scotch and Irish systems of public prosecution | Hancock, W. Neilson |
| 1882 | The depositors in the Tipperary Bank, and the cost of proving wills and distributing small assets in Ireland | Hancock, W. Neilson |
| 1859 | The effects of centralizing Irish local government in London, as illustrated by the operation of tlie centralized audit of Irish municipal corporation accounts | Hancock, W. Neilson |
| 1855 | The excessive Mortality of British Residents in India, as affecting the choice of the Civil Service of the East India Company as a career for young men | Hancock, W. Neilson |
| 1867 | The financial position of Irish railways | Hancock, W. Neilson |
| 1879 | Impediments to the prompt carrying out of some of the principles conceded by Parliament on the Irish land question | Hancock, W. Neilson |
| 1856 | Is fire insurance a proper subject for taxation? | Hancock, W. Neilson |
| 1851 | Is there really a want of capital in Ireland? | Hancock, W. Neilson |
| 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 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 | Hancock, W. Neilson |
| 1877 | The laws relating to the transfer of land in Ireland and in England and Wales compared, especially with reference to (1) the extension of Lord Cairns's Land Transfer Act of 1875 to Ireland; and (2) the small use made of the Bright clauses of the Irish Land Act of 1870 | Hancock, W. Neilson |
| 1875 | 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 | Hancock, W. Neilson |
| 1876 | Notes as to proceedings of the State Charities' Aid Association of New York | Hancock, W. Neilson |
| 1849 | A notice of the theory "that there is no hope for a nation which lives on potatoes" | Hancock, W. Neilson |
| 1880 | Obituary notice of the late Alexander Thom, Esq. J. P., Queen's printer in Ireland, a vice-president of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland | Hancock, W. Neilson |
| 1864 | Obituary notice of the late Most Rev. Richard Whately, D.D. Lord Archbishop of Dublin, President of the Society | Hancock, W. Neilson |
| 1879 | On (1) the value of Adam Smith's “Wealth of Nations”, as a text book at the present day; and (2) the history of his life as an illustration of the importance of endowments for higher education and for research | Hancock, W. Neilson |
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