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Report on the alterations and amendments necessary in the present system of sale and mortgage of land in Ireland
(Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1853)
It will be found convenient in the following report, to adopt the
division naturally suggested by the subject proposed for my
examination; and accordingly I shall treat in their order, first, of
the present system of ...
Thoughts on reading the Hon. John P. Vereker's paper on absenteeism
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1851)
Even if we grant that Absenteeism is an evil, in an economical
sense, what then? How would you cure it, without interfering
with personal freedom? Who do you call an absentee? Is it
the man who derives rent from one ...
Notes of a visit to some church lands, where tenants have bought their holdings, and also to other church lands where tenants have not yet bought their holding
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1878)
It has been suggested to me by Dr. Hancock that it may not be without value to the Statistical Society, that I should put on record the notes of a visit which I have paid during my short stay in Ireland to two of the ...
Homestead laws
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1888)
The present paper aims at giving a concise account of the origin
and development of the Homestead Laws of the United States, with
notices of similar legislation to be found elsewhere. It next considers
the practical ...
Some notes on the present position of the Irish land registry question
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1878)
The Irish Land Registry question, indeed the whole question of facilitating the transfer of land in Ireland, from the commencement of its discussion in 1847, down to the latest utterances on the subject, never has belonged ...
Report to the council on the impediments to express contracts as to the occupation of land in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1866)
The following Report has been prepared by direction of the Council,
in consequence of an application from Jonathan Pim, Esq., M.P.,
Vice-President, to institute an inquiry into the following subject:?
A Report as to the ...
The Law of Property Act, 1922
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1923)
I propose to give you this afternoon a brief and very imperfect
sketch of the changes made in the English Law of Real
Property by the Law of Property Act, 1922. When I tell you
that the Act traverses the whole field of ...
On the Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Act, 1870
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1872)
I desire in the present paper to give a short sketch of the several bills which were introduced into parliament in reference to the Irish land question, in order to compare the Act of 1870 with the attempts at previous ...
On the economic theory of rent
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)
In a recent number of the Contemporary Review, Professor Bonamy Price, under the title of ?What is Rent?? gave an explanation of rent, its ?nature? and ?character?. He limited his explanation to agricultural rent, which ...
Local registration of title
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1890)
The object of this paper is to call attention to the leading provisions
of the Local Registration of Title (Ireland) Bill, which was introduced
in the House of Commons late last session by Mr. Madden,
M.P., the present ...