Browsing JSSISI: 1876 to 1879, Vol. VII, Parts L to LV by Title
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An account of the manor of Kilmoon, and the copyhold tenure existing there
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)It is generally supposed that there are no copyhold lands in Ireland, though at one time they were not altogether unknown. The only mention of their existence in modern times, that I have found, is in Vance and Ferguson's ... -
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 ... -
Application of copyhold enfranchisement to long leases in Ireland; assimilation of chattel and freehold succession, and simplification of transfer of land
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)The Report of the Committee of the House of Commons, on the working of the Bright Clauses of the Irish Land Act of 1870, has brought out in a glaring manner some anomalies and defects in the tenure of land in Ireland. The ... -
Boarding-out of pauper children
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)The mode of dealing with those children who are cast entirely upon the care of the state, which is known as boarding-out, is not a new one, either in principle or practice, although it has attracted more attention during ... -
Causes of slow progress of political economy
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)Political Economy has not of late made progress in public estimation, nor can it be placed in rank, by its most ardent admirers, as a science of which the laws?it may almost be said any one law?are undoubted or capable of ... -
The condition of small farmers in Ireland, and their position with reference to the land question
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)The average size of farms in Ireland is so small that it may well be matter for wonder how the tenants upon them are able to pay any rent alter supporting themselves and their families. In 1866 the number of farms of the ... -
The cost of adopting a complete system of public prosecution in England, as illustrated by the results of the working of the Scotch and Irish systems of public prosecution
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)There are many indications that the extension to England of the system of Public Prosecution which has so long existed both in Scotland and Ireland is only a question of time. This assimilation of the laws of the United ... -
A description of some leases based on the principle of parliamentary tenant-right
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)Sir George Campbell, in an admirable pamphlet published in June, 1869, points out with great clearness the de facto state of land tenure in Ireland. He shows that although the legal conditions were at that time substantially ... -
Fluctuations in the value of the precious metals and their effect on trade
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)I need hardly apologise for introducing this subject to your notice. The trade of Great Britain is the source of her national wealth, and therefore anything that even remotely affects it must be of interest to a society ... -
Impediments to the prompt carrying out of some of the principles conceded by Parliament on the Irish land question
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)In this paper I do not propose to deal with any principles as applied to the Irish land question, except those which have already been conceded by Parliament. With respect to one branch of the land question?the encouragement ... -
Irish statute law reform
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)At the meeting of the British Association which was held in this city in August last, I had the honour of bringing before the Association the important subject of Irish legislation. In the paper that I read on that occasion, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
Observations on the Intestate Widows Acts, Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)Surprise has frequently been expressed at the fact that so little practical result has followed from the passing of the Acts of 36 & 37 Vic. c. 52, and 38 & 39 Vic. c. 27, and that the persons for whose benefit these ... -
On (1) the value of Adam Smith's ?Wealth of Nations?, as a text book at the present day; and (2) the history of his life as an illustration of the importance of endowments for higher education and for research
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)As this Society took its origin in part from the section of Economic Science and Statistics of the British Association, it occurred to me that it would be fitting to close the session with an economic paper, showing that ... -
On banks and banking in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)I am not aware that any paper has ever been read before the Statistical Society on this very important subject. This is, perhaps, not very surprising. In fact public banks have gradually come into existence one by ... -
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 ... -
On the creation of a public commission for the purchase of land for re-sale to tenants in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)The return published in the year 1874 of the number of landed proprietors in Ireland, drew at once attention to their very limited number. The total acreage of Ireland is 20,047,572 acres, whilst the number of proprietors ...
