Irish Land Act.
A decision seriously affecting the working of. the Irish Land Act of ISO 3 was given in Dublin in the Land Judge's Court by Justice Ross. It is to the effect that the teuant-for-life ought not to be allowed to appropriate the bonus to his own use, but should hold it for all otiwr parties who took under tho settlement as well as for himself. Ihe decision, as the Judae explicitly declared, runs counter to the declared intention of both Houses of Legislature, but his dutv was simply to interpret the Act, and lie "m . ?• M lil no words that could .be legitimately interpreted to mean that the temmMor-liie should 'E, t k"" 8 for Ws own us<? - .J* a P' wiisi <>n, he ndjnitt«i that it might be quite impossible to make tho Act work efficiently, seeing that its absence will remote In the case of wanv landself 3 ™ > ' r inducement to in*' . lntr P ductio " of an Amend--8 Act is thus indicatod as the arayywsj
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 42, 23 February 1904, Page 4
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170Irish Land Act. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 42, 23 February 1904, Page 4
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