Browsing JSSISI: 1870 to 1876, Vol. VI, Parts XL to XLIX by Title
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An account of the progress that has been made in describing the differences between the laws in force in England and those in force in Ireland; with some of the leading points not already noticed, and suggestions for the most convenient division of the subject
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1874)In pursuance of the suggestion in the report of the committee of the council, I have prepared the following outline: An investigation of the differences between the laws in England and those in Ireland, divided into eight ... -
Additional facts and arguments on the boarding-out of pauper children
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1876)The larger portion of the address which I had the honour of delivering before the Society at the opening of the present session, was devoted to the subject of the Boarding-out of Pauper Children. There were several aspects ... -
Address at the opening meeting of the twenty-fourth session
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1871)We have, at once, to labour that we may keep fairly abreast with the current of Imperial legislation, and to take care that, so far as it is applicable here, it shall be applied with a due consideration of our ... -
Address at the opening of the thirtieth session
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1876)The honour you have done me in electing me as your president, brings with it the responsibility of addressing you on the occasion of this, the opening meeting of the thirtieth session of the Statistical Society. Having ... -
Address at the opening of the Twenty-eighth Session
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1874)I cannot commence this address without first thanking you for having elected me your President. The names of the distinguished men who have held this office cast a lustre around it; and I count it no mean honour to be ... -
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 ... -
Address at the opening of the twenty-ninth session: The organization of charity, and the education of the children of the state
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1875)The public mind seems for the present averse to the discussion of questions which divide political parties. As if over-strained by the effort necessary to carry the great measures of late years, it now shows a marked ... -
Appointment of charity organization committee
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1875)At the December meeting of the Council of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, it was resolved to appoint a committee to consider and make suggestions upon the subject of charity organization. (1) To ... -
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.
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1871)The law of poor removals had its origin in what was properly called the law of settlement. It is now a part of the law of chargeability of districts to support their own poor, and is in fact part of the machinery by which ... -
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
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 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 ... -
Educational endowments and their application to the middle class and higher education of girls and women
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1872)Educational endowments mean endowments applied for the purpose of education at school of boys and girls, or for the purpose of exhibitions tenable at a school or university, whether in the shape of payment to the governing ... -
Essay on the simplification effected by the codes of law prepared and adopted for British India, and the desirability of framing similar codes for England, Ireland, and Scotland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1876)The formation of codes, or of consolidated statutes relating to portions of Indian law, has taken place within the last few years. The greater portion of this work was carried out in the year 1872. The first statute on ... -
Further information as to the proposal to extend the Scotch law as to improvements in town holdings, to Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1876)The want of this reform in small towns as well as large is shown by a case which happened at the Home Circuit at the Spring Assizes of the present year, 1876. The case related to the Borough of Portarlington, where the ... -
The importance of industrial education
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1876)In the course of some recent investigations which involved enquiry into the working and results of Reformatory and Industrial Schools, it seemed to me that the subject had not yet received the attention it merited, on the ... -
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
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 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 ... -
The limits of state interference with the distribution of wealth, in applying taxation to the assistance of the public
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1872)The science of political economy teaches the laws which regulate the creation, accumulation, and distribution of wealth. It has been fully proved that as soon as society arrives at a very moderate degree of civilization, ... -
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
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1875)At the last meeting of Council of this Society, Mr. Jonathan Pim, made a suggestion that the recently published series of essays obtained by the Cobden Club on Local Government and Local Taxation in England, Scotland, ... -
Municipal government and taxation
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1875)The wide and complicated question of local government and taxation, probably occupies more public attention at the present time than any other question of home politics. It is my purpose this evening to consider only that ... -
Notes as to proceedings of the State Charities' Aid Association of New York
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1876)The Fourth Annual Report of the State Charities' Aid Association of New York, bearing date 1st March, 1876, has been received, and it contains information on points that have interested this Society. One object of the ... -
On legal education in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1872)The object of this paper is to set forth the provision already made for legal education m Ireland; to examine how far the requirements of the legal profession are met by the means of legal education so provided?regard being ...
