JSSISI: Journal of The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1847-: Recent submissions
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Prize essay on the differences in the organization of local courts in Ireland, Scotland, and England, for the discharge of the duties of judges and officers, suggesting such changes as would be expedient in case of an assimilation of jurisdiction in the local courts of the three kingdoms
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1878)Last session I had the honour of submitting to this Society an essay containing the result of some inquiries into the constitution of the local courts in the Three Kingdoms, and containing also some suggestions as to the ... -
Notes of a visit to some church lands, where tenants have bought their holdings, and also to other church lands where tenants have not yet bought their holding
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1878)It has been suggested to me by Dr. Hancock that it may not be without value to the Statistical Society, that I should put on record the notes of a visit which I have paid during my short stay in Ireland to two of the ... -
Remarks of G. Shaw Lefevre, M.P., and Right Hon. Hugh Law, M.P., on preceding papers
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1878)G. Shaw Lefevre, M. P., who was received with applause, said he felt very much pleasure at being called on to say a few words on the very able and interesting papers they had just heard read. He felt that he owed that ... -
The preliminary proceedings in criminal cases in England, Ireland, and Scotland, compared
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1878)Readers of newspapers who favour the law intelligence with a cursory glance, will occasionally see the report of an application to the Court of Queen's Bench for a writ of habeas corpus to bring before a coroner's inquest ... -
Trade unions and combinations in 1853
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1853)Being desirous of obtaining authentic information with respect to the present character and prevalence of combinations among the working classes, I have endeavoured to possess myself of it by personal inquiry from persons ... -
On a decimal currency
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1853)In many essays which have lately appeared on the subject of a decimal currency, the distinction has not been sufficiently observed which exists between a decimal coinage and a decimal currency; between a system of coins ... -
Some notes on the present position of the Irish land registry question
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1878)The Irish Land Registry question, indeed the whole question of facilitating the transfer of land in Ireland, from the commencement of its discussion in 1847, down to the latest utterances on the subject, never has belonged ... -
Whether the union or the county should be taken as the district for local registers of land
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)In the discussions which have arisen from the suggestions I have made as to local registers for small holders of land, one of the questions raised is the suggestion of making the county the district for local registration, ... -
On some of the difficulties in the way of creating a peasant proprietary in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1878)The enquiry, commenced last session, at the instance of Mr. Shaw Lefevre, into the working of the Bright Clauses of the Land Act, and the interest shown in the sales of the Church Temporalities Commissioners, suggested ... -
Notice of some points in Irish agricultural statistics
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)I now wish to make a brief communication of a most important and interesting discovery, if I may so call it, which I think I have made with regard to agricultural statistics. In poring over Thorn's article on the latter, ... -
On partnerships with limited liability
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1854)If any apology, further than the importance of the subject, were required for a paper such as the present, after the very able and carefully written pamphlet of Mr. Colles, it would be found in the report of the select ... -
On the prospects of the manufacture of sugar from beet-root in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1878)Between 1869 and 1876 an experiment was tried in Ireland of the manufacture of sugar from beet-root, which turned out unprofitable as a pecuniary speculation. When the failure occurred, it was suggested by a gentleman of ... -
On the relation between landlord and tenant in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1853)In venturing to direct the attention of this Society, for a short time, to certain provisions of law which now regulate the relation between landlord and tenant in this country, I feel that I am dealing with a subject ... -
The wine duties, with reference to their effects on the commercial relations between the British dominions and France
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1853)In the following paper I propose to lay before you a summary of the history of the wine duties, and of the present condition of the trade, chiefly with reference to our commercial relations with France. Although these ... -
The functions of grand juries in criminal cases
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1865)The various branches of our criminal procedure are necessarily closely interwoven. The necessity or the usefulness of a particular step in the complex process by which criminals are brought to justice, is often dependent ... -
Symposium on the economic outlook for 1954
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1954)We are proceeding in this symposium from the general to the particular; and my task is to discuss in the broadest terms the general economic outlook for the United Kingdom in 1954. This seems to me to involve two questions, ... -
Report of Council at the opening of thirty-first session
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1878)The legislation of the past session was marked by a large amount of assimilation of the laws, a subject to which the exertions of the Society have been specially directed since the committee was appointed at the suggestion ... -
Symposium on the present and future of inland transport
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1957)The Statistical Society of Ireland is nearly 110 years old, and it has discussed the problems of Irish transport on some twenty-five occasions: for instance, over 90 years ago it was discussing the nationalisation of the ... -
Symposium on the Report of the Commission on Emigration and other population problems
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1956)My comments are limited to two points, one demographic and one economic. In matters demographic Ireland is obviously out of step with the rest of the world, and it is difficult to avoid the sense of guilt which comes ... -
Symposium on national income and social accounts
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1952)The series of tables and notes which form the kernel of this contribution to the Society's symposium on National Income are designed as an appendix to the recent White Paper,1 which contained the official estimates of ...
