Pamphlets Relating to English History: The Land Question, Band 21879 |
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100 of ditto abolition acres agricultural amongst amount annuity capital cent charged commissioners condition Convention Parliament Corn-law cottages court of wards crown cultivation effect eldest England entailed estates equal escheat evil excise expense fact farm farmer favour feudal France free trade gavelkind granted Guernsey heir Henry Henry II Hist House Hypothec improvement increase industry influence interest intestacy king knight-service knight's-fee labor land laws land-tax landed property landlord landowners law of primogeniture levied Lord manors marriage ment owners Parliament peasant proprietors peasantry personal estate personal property perty population possession pound present primogeniture produce profits proportion purchase question Real estate real property reign rent revenue Scotland scutage seisin sess settlements socage soil statute tenant tenure tion trade in land transfer true yearly value Tuscany Tyrol whilst whole
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Seite 64 - The chimneys have lost half their original height, and lean on the roof with fearful gravitation. The rafters are evidently rotten and displaced ; and the thatch yawning to admit the wind and wet...
Seite 1 - And when a freeholder doth fealty to his lord, he shall hold his right hand upon a book, and shall say thus: know ye this, my lord, that I shall be faithful and true unto you, and faith to you shall bear for the lands which I claim to hold of you, and that I shall lawfully do to you the custom and services which I ought to do, at the terms assigned, so help me god and his saints; and he shall kiss the book.
Seite 98 - The elegance of his dress, of his equipage, of his house, and household furniture, are objects which from his infancy he has been accustomed to have some anxiety about. The turn of mind which this habit naturally forms follows him when he comes to think of the improvement of land. He embellishes perhaps four or five hundred acres in the neighbourhood of his house, at ten times the...
Seite 98 - To improve land with profit, like all other commercial projects, requires an exact attention to small savings and small gains, of which a man born to a great fortune, even though naturally frugal, is very seldom capable.
Seite 88 - It is visible in their new-built houses and stables; in their little gardens; in their hedges; in the courts before their doors; even in the coops for their poultry, and the sties for their hogs. A peasant does not think of rendering his pig comfortable, if his own happiness hang by the thread of a nine years
Seite 89 - ... would be too great for it It was sufficient to prove that property in land is, of all others, the most active instigator to severe and incessant labour.
Seite 18 - Smith very feelingly complains, " when he came to his own, after he was out of wardship, his woods decayed, houses fallen down, stock wasted and gone, lands let forth and ploughed to be barren...
Seite 23 - An Act for taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries, and Tenures in capite and by Knights Service, and Purveyance, and for settling a Revenue upon His Majesty in lieu thereof...
Seite 106 - I warn them against ripping up the subject of taxation. If they want another League, at the death of this one — if they want another organisation, and a motive — for you cannot have these organisations without a motive and principle — then let them force the middle and industrious classes of England to understand how they have been cheated, robbed, and bamboozled upon the subject of taxation...
Seite ix - To promote a policy of Encouragement to Co-operative Agriculture, through the purchase by the State, from time to time, of Estates which are in the market, and the Letting of them, under proper regulations, to such Co-operative Associations, as afford sufficient evidence of spontaneity and promise of efficiency.