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Agriculture~ and CtJtnmnce.
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make respects the cultivation of the lands which are
so llolden.
Ther~ exists in this country conditions of tenure
which conde:nn the land itself to perpetual sterility.
Of this kind is the right of common, wbleb precludes
each proprietor from the improvement, or even the
convenient occupation, of his estate, without (what
seldom can !>e obtained) the CGnsent of many others.
l'his tenure is aisa usually embarrassed by the interference
of mlinerio/ claims, under which it often happens
that the surface belongs- to one owner, and the
soil to another; so that neither own~r can stir a clod
without the concurrence of his partner in the property.
In many manors, the tenant is reo ~jned from
granting h:ases beyond a short term of years ; which
renders every plan of solid improvement impracticable.
In these cases the owner wants, what the first
rule of rational policy require~, " sufficient power
over the soil for its perfect cultivation/' This pow ...
er ought to be extended to him by some easy and
general law of enfranchisement, partition, 3l1d inclosure;
which, though compulfory upon the lord, or
the re~t of tbe tenants, v#·hilst it has in view the me.
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