The Quarterly Review, Volume 291William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1953 |
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Page 362
... land must be arrested even if it costs more to build houses on poorer and less accessible land . At the same time there are millions of acres of poor and marginal land which could be farmed but which it does not at present pay to ...
... land must be arrested even if it costs more to build houses on poorer and less accessible land . At the same time there are millions of acres of poor and marginal land which could be farmed but which it does not at present pay to ...
Page 363
... land may well make excessively high profits and have no very strong incentive to farm the land as well as they can . Mr Stanley Evans , for instance , is fond of saying that some farmers are ' featherbedded ' even with prices as they ...
... land may well make excessively high profits and have no very strong incentive to farm the land as well as they can . Mr Stanley Evans , for instance , is fond of saying that some farmers are ' featherbedded ' even with prices as they ...
Page 371
... land was no longer held ' freehold ' at all , but subject to the payment of the charge . Instead of being a freeholder the land- holder would hold a ' tenant - right , ' as under the Evesham Custom , and pay a ' quit - rent'or chief ...
... land was no longer held ' freehold ' at all , but subject to the payment of the charge . Instead of being a freeholder the land- holder would hold a ' tenant - right , ' as under the Evesham Custom , and pay a ' quit - rent'or chief ...
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Memories of Beatty | 2 |
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