Browsing by Subject "Land transfer"
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Application of copyhold enfranchisement to long leases in Ireland; assimilation of chattel and freehold succession, and simplification of transfer of land
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)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 ... -
Bright Clauses of the Irish Land Act
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1880)I may at the outset plainly state that I do not intend to travel over the whole ground occupied by the subject which I have chosen for my text. I take it that all reasonable people and a large number of the unreasonable ... -
Land transfer and local registration of title.
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1895)The Local Registration of Title (Ireland) Act, 1891, to which, at the request of the President and Council, I have the honour to invite the society's attention, is an important measure affecting the transfer of land in ... -
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
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1877)The defective state of the law as to the transfer of land in Ireland was brought before this Society some thirty years ago. Since then great legislative progress has been made in removing defects. The Incumbered Estates ... -
On the creation of a public commission for the purchase of land for re-sale to tenants in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)The return published in the year 1874 of the number of landed proprietors in Ireland, drew at once attention to their very limited number. The total acreage of Ireland is 20,047,572 acres, whilst the number of proprietors ... -
On the economic causes of the present state of agriculture in Ireland: part two
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1849)In this paper I propose to notice the second, third, and fourth elements of the cost of the transfer, viz: the expense of searches for incumbrances, the stamps on conveyances and searches, and the length of conveyances. ... -
On the report of the Select Committee appointed ?to enquire and report whether any and what steps ought to be taken to simplify the title to land, and to facilitate the transfer thereof, and to prevent frauds on purchasers and mortgagees of land?, and on the first report of Her Majesty's Commissioners appointed ?to enquire into the law relating to the registration of deeds and assurances in Ireland?.
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1880)To simplify the title to land and facilitate the transfer thereof must always be a subject of much interest in this country, where so large a proportion of the wealth of the inhabitants consists of land. I will therefore ... -
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 ... -
The Registration of Assurances Bill
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1891)"The Registration of Assurances Bill" of the Attorney-General, Mr. Madden, is the complement of his "Registration of Titles Bill"; combined they cover the entire field of land transfer in Ireland. This paper, then, is ... -
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 ...