Browsing JSSISI: 1870 to 1876, Vol. VI, Parts XL to XLIX by Title
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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 ... -
On the exclusion of the evidence of accused persons
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1875)Some apology is, I feel, due to the Society for the selection of a subject so often discussed here and elsewhere; yet when the topic is a proposed reform, it can hardly be said to be exhausted until either it has been ... -
On the expediency of the total abolition of grand juries in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1871)The grand jury is the only public institution now in existence which on a large scale controls and administers taxation without representation. The grand jury is selected by one individual irresponsible to all authority, ... -
On the grand jury question in Ireland, considered with reference to the latest English analogies
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1871)As all our institutions for local government and administration are founded more or less on English precedents, it is useful, in collecting the information necessary for any important change, to combine a sketch of the ... -
On the importance of extending the British gold standard with subsidiary silver coins to India, as a remedy for the inconveniences in India from the rapid depreciation of silver
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1876)The early years of Her present Majesty's reign were distinguished by the great reform for securing the perfect convertibility of Bank notes into gold, embodied in the Bank Act of 1844, which we owe to Sir Robert Peel and ... -
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 legal provisions in Ireland for the care and instruction of imbeciles, idiots, deaf and dumb, and blind, with suggestions for amended legislation
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1876)In pursuance of the reference of the Council, at the suggestion of Mr. Jonathan Pim, to prepare a report on queries submitted by Sir Charles E. Trevelyan, Bart., K.C.B., viz.: (a) What arrangements have been made for the ... -
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 principles on which plans for the curative treatment of habitual drunkards should be based
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1875)I do not intend to offer any scheme in detail for the curative treatment of habitual drunkards, nor do I intend to criticise any other scheme in detail. My object is only to suggest upon what principles any such scheme ... -
On the working of the sanitary laws in Dublin, with suggestions for their amendment
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1873)The state of the laws relative to the Public Health in Ireland was, previous to the year 1866, extremely unsatisfactory. The attention of the Town-Council of Dublin having been directed to the matter by a report of Edward ... -
A plan of applying the latest sanctions of parliament in the management of the public debt and of town finance to the debts and borrowing powers of the town council of Dublin
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1871)Of all the modes of borrowing money for public purposes which were resorted to by financiers from the reign of William III, when the National Debt may be said to have commenced, till 1816, when it reached its greatest ... -
Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: one hundred and twenty-eighth session -1974/75
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Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: One Hundred and Twenty-Ninth Session -1975/76
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Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: one hundred and twenty-sixth session -1972/73
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Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: twenty eighth session 1874/1875, second to fifth meetings
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