http://hdl.handle.net/2262/8741 2013-06-19T20:36:13Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/8499 Title: On the report of the Irish Lunacy Inquiry Commissioners, and the policy of extending the English law for the protection of neglected lunatics to Ireland Author: Hancock, W. Neilson Abstract: I need offer no apology for bringing this subject before the Society at the present time. It is three years since, in consequence of an invitation from a great English philanthropist (Sir Charles E. Trevelyan) to Mr. Jonathan Pim, to help in having imbeciles and lunatics better cared for throughout the United Kingdom, that the Charity Organisation Committee of this society devoted a considerable time to the investigation of the Irish branch of the subject, and made two reports, which were read at meetings of the society. The first report of the committee (printed in the Journal) was so much appreciated in England, that the society was invited to send delegates to cooperate with the Charity Organisation Society, London, in pressing the necessary reforms upon the President of the English Local Government Board. Accordingly, Lord Waveney, Lord O'Hagan, and Mr. John Gilmore, were deputed to act as delegates for the society. Description: Read before the Society, 24 June 1979 1879-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/8479 Title: The present position and prospects of political economy: being the introductory address delivered in the Section of Economic Science and Statistics of the British Association for the Advancement of Science Author: Ingram, John Kells Abstract: Had I been called upon at any other time to preside over this section, I should have followed the example of most of my predecessors, in selecting as the subject of the discourse which it is usual to deliver from this chair, some one of the special economic questions of the day, which my knowledge might have enabled me most adequately, or, let me rather say, least inadequately to treat. But I have felt that the matter with which I should deal has been practically determined for me beforehand. An important crisis in the history of our section has taken place. Its claim to form a part of the British Association has been disputed. Some of the cultivators of the older branches of research but half recognise the right of Political Economy and Statistics to citizenship in the commonwealth of science, and it is not obscurely intimated on their part that these studies would do well to relinquish pretensions which cannot be sustained, and proceed, with or without shame, to take the lower room to which alone they are entitled. Description: Read before the Society, August 1878 1879-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/8468 Title: A description of some leases based on the principle of parliamentary tenant-right Author: McDonnell, James Abstract: Sir George Campbell, in an admirable pamphlet published in June, 1869, points out with great clearness the de facto state of land tenure in Ireland. He shows that although the legal conditions were at that time substantially the same in both England and Ireland they had seldom in practice been fully acted on or recognised by either landlord or tenant in Ireland. He shows how under this strange condition of things [laws made on the principle of contract only and customs prevailing on the principle of status or tenure] there had sprung up tenant-right in the north, and elsewhere somewhat analogous usages, or at least expectations, any interference with which on the part of the landlord was resented by the tenant, and often led to violence. He thus describes the Ulster custom. Description: Read before the Society, 28 January 1879 1879-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/8446 Title: Some statistics and researches on the Poor Removal question, with special reference to the removal of persons of Irish birth from Scotland Author: Hancock, W. Neilson Abstract: In the course of some researches upon the ages of persons of Irish birth in England and Scotland, I arrived at some figures which place in a strong point of view the very large proportion of persons liable to be affected by the laws as to poor removal from Scotland and England to Ireland. Description: Read before the Society, August 1878 1879-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/8418 Title: Application of copyhold enfranchisement to long leases in Ireland; assimilation of chattel and freehold succession, and simplification of transfer of land Author: Edge, J. H. Abstract: The Report of the Committee of the House of Commons, on the working of the Bright Clauses of the Irish Land Act of 1870, has brought out in a glaring manner some anomalies and defects in the tenure of land in Ireland. The Committee, in fact, attribute the break-down in the working of these clauses in a great measure to the expense and delay attending the transfer of land from one individual to another, or from the state to a private purchaser; and the Report evidently shows forebodings of difficulties to arise hereafter from the same source. Description: Read before the Society, August 1878 1879-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/8407 Title: On the substitution for the three-fold law of succession resting on the accidents of tenure, of a three-fold law for distinct classes of (1) landed gentry, (2) manufacturers, and (3) farmers, resting on the scientific basis of the observed usages of these different classes as to wills and settlements Author: Hancock, W. Neilson Abstract: In the discussions which have taken place on the law of successions in the United Kingdom, it has been commonly assumed that there is a simple issue involved, and the only change recommended or discussed is to extend the law of succession of property other than land, to the succession of landed property. In this way the true complication of the question is entirely overlooked, and few people are aware, or refer in their discussions, to the fact that there are in England three laws of succession to land, and that there was, so recently as 1836, three of succession to property other than land. Description: Read at the Section of Economic Science and Statistics of the British Association, at Plymouth, August, 1877 1879-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/8404 Title: Observations on the Intestate Widows Acts, Ireland Author: Smith, George H. Abstract: Surprise has frequently been expressed at the fact that so little practical result has followed from the passing of the Acts of 36 & 37 Vic. c. 52, and 38 & 39 Vic. c. 27, and that the persons for whose benefit these enactments were introduced and sanctioned have to a very slight extent indeed availed themselves of their provisions. The main purpose sought to be accomplished by these measures— popularly known as the “Intestate Widows Acts” —was to enable the property of individuals in the humblest rank to be placed in train for distribution, at an expense bearing some relation to the financial condition of the parties concerned, and to the extent of the assets to be dealt with; but unhappily this commendable intention has been frustrated by the defects of the provisions of the Acts themselves. As a consequence, the number of cases annually dealt with under these statutes throughout Ireland has never exceeded 26 out of a total of about 400, which, except for the complications involved in the procedure, might have been carried out at small cost to needy and deserving litigants. Description: Read before the Society, 6 May 1979 1879-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/8399 Title: On the importance and feasibility of making special local arrangements for facilitating peasant proprietors and other small holders in dealing with their interests in land Author: Hancock, W. Neilson Abstract: Probably the greatest practical reform which the present generation has witnessed was Sir Rowland Hill's Penny Postage reform. The accommodation which the public, especially the poor and those residing in backward districts, have gained from it, is wonderful. Let us take the figures. In 1839, before the reduction in the postage took place, the number of letters delivered in the United Kingdom was 82 millions. In 1875 the number reached 1008 millions. Making allowance for growth of population, this represents an increase from three letters per head to thirty-one, or more than tenfold. Description: Read before the Society, 26 February 1878 1879-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/8381 Title: On the impolicy of a revival of protection as a remedy for the present depression Author: Moylan, J. Abstract: With the now extended experience we have had of the vast benefits of free-trade, with the generally increased prosperity of the empire consequent thereon, with the augmented population of the sister kingdoms, and the increased well-being of our own, it may appear an unnecessary task to attempt demonstrating the inexpediency of curtailing such benefits, of lopping off a portion of such advantages, with the view of bolstering up this or that class interest, for this, in reality, is what is meant by would-be protectionists; nevertheless, as these protectionist notions seem to prevail among some sections of the community, it may be worth while to examine briefly as to the prevalence of such notions, to show their utter inadequacy if carried into effect, of relieving the present distress, and in the present temper of the times, the utter impossibility of carrying them out into action. Description: Read before the Society, 6 May1979 1879-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/8379 Title: On the law relating to the realization of judgments and decrees, with special reference to judgments and decrees against tenant-farmers Author: Dodd, William H. Abstract: When an advocate has carried a case to a successful termination in court, and the judgment or decree has been obtained, the anxious client often asks: “How am I to get it realized?” He is put off jokingly with the answer—“That is entirely for yourself. All we can get for you is the verdict”. There is an amount of grim truth, however, in the answer, which rather spoils the jest. And it would seem as if our legal reformers had adopted the answer as one eminently just and right. For of late years many efforts at legislation have been made, and various Acts have been passed, with a view to facilitating the trial of actions. But comparatively little attention has been bestowed on what takes place after verdict had and judgment given. And yet this portion of our legal machinery needs adjustment and reform more than any other. 'Die difficulties in the way of enforcing a judgment against a tenant, so as to realize the amount out of his interest in his farm, are very numerous. Description: Read before the Society, 10 December 1878 1879-01-01T00:00:00Z