IN GREAT PART RE-WRITTEN, WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE STEVENS AND SONS, 119, CHANCERY LANE, Law Publishers and Booksellers. 1882. PREFACE. DURING the thirty years and upwards that have elapsed since this Treatise was published by Mr. Wingrove Cooke, such pronounced changes have taken place in the method of farming, and in the conditions under which it is carried on; so many Statutory alterations have affected the relations of landlord and tenant; such important points of law have arisen, and been decided, that no excuse is necessary for bringing out a new Edition of this standard work. The effect of these changes has resulted in the investment of a larger amount of capital in the land, by both landlord and tenant, than was formerly the case. The permanent improvements, which in England it has been considered the wiser course for the landlord to execute, have necessitated the outlay by him of considerable sums of money in cottages, farm buildings of a modern type, drainand other costly improvements, so as to place his farm in a position to yield, under proper treatment, the greatest amount of produce. age, The tenant has been obliged to expend capital in artificial manures and feeding stuffs, in the employment of increased and high priced labour, and in the purchase, or hire, of expensive machinery. The necessity for this outlay on the part of the landlord has been recognised by the passing, within the last twenty years, of Acts of Parliament enabling tenants for life, infants, and others, to raise money, grant leases, and do various acts |