Browsing JSSISI: 1876 to 1879, Vol. VII, Parts L to LV by Date of Publication
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Prize essay on the jurisdiction of the local courts in Ireland, Scotland, and England compared
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1877)The Council of this Society have done me the honour of selecting me as essayist ?On the difference of division of jurisdiction between Local and Central Courts in Ireland, Scotland, and England?. I have inquired into the ... -
The laws relating to the transfer of land in Ireland and in England and Wales compared, especially with reference to (1) the extension of Lord Cairns's Land Transfer Act of 1875 to Ireland; and (2) the small use made of the Bright clauses of the Irish Land Act of 1870
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1877)The defective state of the law as to the transfer of land in Ireland was brought before this Society some thirty years ago. Since then great legislative progress has been made in removing defects. The Incumbered Estates ... -
Report of the Charity Organisation Committee on imbeciles, idiots, and harmless lunatics
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1877)We have considered the final report of the Special Committee of the Charity Organisation Society of London, on the ?Education and Cure of Idiots, Imbeciles, and Harmless Lunatics?, adopted on the 2nd of January in the ... -
Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: thirtieth session 1876/1877, second to fifth meetings
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On the importance of (1) a larger infusion of the industrial element into our system of education, and of (2) an adaptation to Ireland of the day industrial clauses of Lord Sandon's act of 1876
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1877)On the 16th March in the present year there was a debate in the House of Commons, of interest to Ireland more deep than pleasant. In a speech admirable for ability and earnest feeling, Mr. O'Shaughnessy, M.P. for Limerick, ... -
Is our commercial depression due to free trade, and would it be relieved by limited protection
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1877)It used to be said formerly that after a bad harvest there was sure to be a change of Ministry. In recent times, whenever, through over-speculation or over-trading, the demand for banking accommodation has out-run the ... -
Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: thirtieth session 1876/1877, sixth to seventh meetings
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Report of the International Law Congress Committee on the complaints of foreign consuls in Ireland of the want of a local court in each Irish port, with permanent judicial officers for the prompt determination of all questions between foreign captains and Irish merchants
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1877)The Council having named us as a committee ?To consider the best means of making provision that the Society and those who take an interest in this subject in Ireland shall be adequately represented at the International Law ... -
Report of Committee on Legislation by Provisional Orders in England, Scotland, and Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1877)The small extent to which the Provisional Order System of Legislation has been practically adopted in Ireland cannot be understood without noticing the system which preceded it?viz., that of allowing the inhabitants of ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Report of the Charity Organisation Committee on the organisation of the courts by which drunkenness is punished, in connexion with suggested extension of the Justices' Clerks Act, 1877, to Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1878)In investigating the causes of distress, drunkenness appears at once to be one of the chief causes. It is also intimately connected with the prevalence of vice, as it weakens the checks against immorality. So again, the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: thirty first session 1877/1878, fourth to seventh meetings
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Report of the International Law Committee, on the impediments to the trade between the United Kingdom and America which exist in Dublin from the unsatisfactory state of the law as to foreign sailors
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1878)We requested Mr. Bagenal, one of our body, to make enquiries as to what impediments to the trade between The United Kingdom and America exist in the port of Dublin; and he wrote to the United States consul. The answer, in ... -
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 ... -
Address at meeting for inauguration of the Thirty-first Session
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1878)My Lords and gentlemen, I thank you very much for the high honour you have conferred on me by electing me your President. That position has heretofore been filled by eminent men, whose zeal and earnestness in the promotion ...
