Application of copyhold enfranchisement to long leases in Ireland; assimilation of chattel and freehold succession, and simplification of transfer of land

Abstract

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 Committee, in fact, attribute the break-down in the working of these clauses in a great measure to the expense and delay attending the transfer of land from one individual to another, or from the state to a private purchaser; and the Report evidently shows forebodings of difficulties to arise hereafter from the same source.