《1883[]Brodric The reform of the English land system》.pdf

fkM LI B RAR.Y OF THE U N IVLR5ITY or ILLINOIS 1 THE REFORM ENGLISH LAND SYSTEM BY THE HON. GEORGE C. BRODRICK, Warden of Merton ; AUTHOR OF ENGLISH I.AXU AND ENGLISH LANDLORDS. Cassell, Petter, Galpin Co. LONDON, PARIS .£• NEW YORK. 1883. PREFACE. The following Essay is, in the main, a popular abridgment of those chapters in my own treatise, entitled English Land and EngUsh Landlords, which deal with the reforms to be effected in the English system of Laud Tenure and Land Tenancy. One of these reforms has been partially carried out by Lord Cairns Settled Estates Act, but reasons are here given for regarding that Act, however beneficial, as no more than a tentative adjustment of a question which must needs be ultimately settled on broader principles. In the discussion of Tenant Right, liberal quotations have been made from an article contributed by me to Frasers Magazine of February, 1882. GEORGE C. BRODRICK. THE REFORM OF THE ENGLISH LAND SYSTEM. In discussing the Reform of the English Land System, we have to consider how far it may be expedient to modify that System, either in the special interest of agriculture, or in the general interest of social and political well-being. But we cannot hope to form a just conception of the English Land System as it ought to be, without having a practical knowledge of the English Land System as it is that is, of those distinctive