The Law of Allotments for the Poor and Labouring Population; Including the Allotments Acts, 1887 and 1890, the Allotments and Cottage Gardens Compensa

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1895 Excerpt: ... cannot award to a landlord any money which may be found Note to due to him from the tenant for rent or breaches of covenant in Sect. 10. excess of the amount found due by the landlord to the tenant for improvements. (J- re Holmes and Formby 1895, 1 Q. B. 174.) But it would seem that when acting in pursuance of this sub-section he may award a balance to the landlord if the landlord's claim overtops that of the parish council. (8.) The order for compulsory hiring may apply, with the prescribed adaptations, such of the provisions of the Lands Clauses Acts (including those relating to the acquisition of land otherwise than by agreement) as appear to the county council or Local Government Board sufficient for carrying into effect the order, and for the protection of the persons interested in the land and of the parish council. Prescribed appears to have the interpretation put upon it by section 75, post, i.e., prescribed by the Local Government Board. It will be necessary, therefore, for the Board to adapt the Lands Clauses Acts to suit the case of hiring land compulsorily, and when they are so adapted the county council, if the order is made by the council under sub-section (4) of section 9, or the Local Government Board, if the order is made by the Board under sub-section (5) of section 9, may apply such of the provisions of those Acts so adapted as to the council or Board may respectively appear sufficient. (9.) Nothing in this section shall authorise the compulsory hiring of any mines or minerals, or confer any right to take, sell, or carry away any gravel, sand, or clay, or authorise the hiring of any land which is already owned or occupied as a small holding within the meaning of the Small Holdings 55 & 56 Act, 1892. Vict, c. 31. Mines and mineral...