Browsing by Author "Lawson, James A."
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Address at the opening of the twenty-fifth session
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1872)As President of your Society, I have been called upon to discharge the usual duty of delivering the opening address from this chair. I take the opportunity of returning thanks for the honour conferred upon me, and of ... -
The expediency of a cheap land tribunal
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1856)The subject which I wish to bring under the notice of the Society this evening is, the expediency of establishing a cheap Land Tribunal. In my opinion such a tribunal is very much required, and I do not limit this ... -
On commercial panics
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1849)Amongst the many subjects of inquiry which present themselves in the wide field of Statistics, there is none, I think, more calculated to excite our interest, than the one which I am about to bring under the consideration ... -
On the agricultural statistics of Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1854)Here is a vast mass of information, and it is surely worth while to endeavour to elicit the truths contained in it; and while this remains to be done, none of us need complain of a deficiency of materials for valuable ... -
On the connexion between statistics and political economy
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1849)As our Society professes to be formed in order to promote the study of "Statistical and Economical Science," I think it may not be inappropriate to make a few observations, by way of introduction, on the connexion between ... -
On the policy of direct or indirect taxation
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1849)A direct tax can be made to possess all these requisites; it can be made equal, by imposing it on every person according to his means; it can be rendered certain, and can be levied at suitable and convenient times; and ... -
On the practicability of codifying English law, with a specimen code of the law of evidence
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1872)There is a very natural desire on the part of the public to have our laws simplified and condensed. It is a legal maxim that everyone is supposed to know the law, and every person is visited with the consequences of his ... -
On the present state of the law and practice in Ireland with respect to wills and the administration of assets
(Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1852)I beg leave to submit to you the following report upon the question proposed to me for investigation; namely, 'The Present State of the Law and Practice in Ireland with respect to Wills, with a view to have all wills ... -
On the present state of the law and practice in Ireland with respect to wills and the administration of assets
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1852)I beg leave to submit to you the following report upon the question proposed to me for investigation; namely, "The Present State of the Law and Practice in Ireland with respect to Wills, with a view to have all wills ... -
The over-population fallacy considered
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1851)We hear so much at the present day about over-population and the remedies suggested for that disease, that I think it will not be uninteresting to inquire what over-population is, when it can properly be said to exist, ... -
President's address at the opening of the twenty-sixth session
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1873)My address last year was devoted to a review of the progress made by this country in wealth, and a comparison of her present condition with her past, based upon reliable statistical information: the conclusion at which I ... -
Report on the patent laws
(Society for Promoting Scientific Inquiries into Social Questions, 1851)I have, at your request, inquired into the state of the Law of Patents in this country, and I now beg to lay before you the result of that inquiry. My attention was particularly directed by you, "to the expense and delay ... -
Report on the patent laws
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1851)I have, at your request, inquired into the state of the Law of Patents in this country, and I now beg to lay before you the result of that inquiry. My attention was particularly directed by you, "to the expense and delay ... -
Statistics to illustrate the lands of business which joint stock companies are suited to carry on, especially with respect to investments in land
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1852)My attention has been lately directed to the subject of public companies, by the many plans recently brought before the public for the formation of such associations for the purpose of buying land, and sometimes for ...
