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Land Law
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Derek Wood
Published: 13 August 2009
...1865-1950 1950-2008 Agricultural holdings 1 5 Compulsory purchase 20 17 Easements 12 1 Land charges/registration 0 8 Landlord and tenant 41 62 Licence/tenancy 0 5 Limitation (including adverse possession) 9 2...
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Vectors and Agents of Knowledge Transmission
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Peter M. Jones
Published: 17 December 2015
... point. Several categories of agents and instigators emerge as having played a particularly important role in the transmission of agricultural knowledge: improving landlords, land agents, well-to-do tenant farmers and the rural clergy. In this connection the debates among historians about the primary...
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British Politicians and the Transformation of Rural Society in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
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K. Theodore Hoppen
Published: 23 June 2016
... the economic and social impact of such changes and explores their impact on the creation of a community more prepared than hitherto to challenge the traditional role of the landlords and ultimately the traditional role of the British state in Ireland. Act of Union 1707 Act of Union 1800 Emmett Robert...
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The Origins of the English Manorial Court Rolls as a Written Record: A Puzzle
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ZVI RAZI and RICHARD M. SMITH
Published: 19 September 1996
...This chapter offers an explanation for the shift from oral to written procedures in manorial courts in England. It argues that the proceedings of the manor court in England were recorded as a result of an attempt made by 13th-century landlords to bring their courts in line with prior developments...
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Published: 19 September 1996
...This chapter examines records showing the degree to which the exploitative tendencies of some 13th-century landlords penetrated down to the most humble levels of society. These also provide information on the employment of labour by tenant landholders. It is shown that the insistence which...
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Published: 21 December 2000
...This chapter focuses on the improvements in agriculture, within an information perspective, in the United Kingdom. Landlords may have more information than farmers, and share this information with them; however, this does not necessarily mean that the landlords' information is used. Landlords...
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Published: 06 March 2007
... organisation gymnasium klêroi Alexandrian farmers in chôra tenant farmers village notables Egyptian temples cities, Egyptian administration Greeks in Egypt absentee landlords The title of this chapter might be misleading in its breadth; it is actually aimed at developing some methodological...
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The Great Rent Strikes
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Robert M. Fogelson
Published: 15 October 2013
...This chapter continues the discussion of the postwar rent strikes in New York City. Striking tenants believed that it was in their interest to withhold rent and resist eviction for as long as possible. A long strike, one that dragged on for weeks or months, deprived the landlords of much needed...
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The September Laws
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Robert M. Fogelson
Published: 15 October 2013
...This chapter first discusses the impact of the April laws on housing in New York. For many tenants the laws had not done enough to curb rent profiteering. The landlords were even more dissatisfied with the April laws than the tenants, with most becoming skeptical that the new laws were aimed...
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The Extension of Rent Control
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Robert M. Fogelson
Published: 15 October 2013
... Dunnigan Act Flynn Joseph C H United Real Estate Owners Association Delehanty Francis B Goodkind Martin H Gutman Abraham Levy Leasing Co Inc v Siegel Lewis Clarence M Orinoco Realty Company New York City tenants landlords housing law emergency rent laws Although some of the emergency rent laws...
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Monastic Landscapes and Society
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Wendy Davies
Published: 01 April 2014
..., shifting the settlement pattern, and by erecting monuments. On the whole monastic landlords realized their income by collecting rents, but some of those with larger properties actively managed their lands, sometimes by requiring services from tenants. The profit was used to support the monks, guests...
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‘The Irish Landlords Have Become the Victims of a Revolution’ Before the Great War, 1879–1914
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Terence Dooley
Published: 19 April 2022
...This chapter lays out the history of the Irish landlords and their ‘Big Houses’ prior to World War I. It discusses the decline of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy during this period, and how this decline is readily symbolised by vanished or crumbling Irish country house architecture. The chapter traces...
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Published: 29 March 2006
..., the chapter also poses some questions on the housing futures of both the landlords and the tenants. References Audit Commission ( 2001 ) Group dynamics: Group structures and registered social landlords , London: Audit Commission. Hembrow, I. and Wadhams, C. ( 2003...
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Private renting
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Madhu Satsangi and others
Published: 01 September 2010
... from the privately rented sector (PRS). From the 1980s onwards, policy makers have recognised the valid contribution that private landlords play in terms of delivering affordable housing solutions. This chapter discusses private renting and the role it plays within the housing system. It determines...
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Conclusions: championing community self-help
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Liz Richardson
Published: 12 March 2008
..., and if it is patronising residents to talk of community self-help solutions. The role of community self-help is examined, along with the implications for strategies to engage and build communities. The chapter also looks at its significance to the national and local government, social landlords, other service providers...
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Landlords’ and Tenants’ Strategies for Coping with the New York City Rental Housing Market
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Rachael A. Woldoff and others
Published: 15 March 2016
...Chapter 5 explains the ways in which landlords in general, and specifically Stuyvesant Town’s owners and tenants, have reacted to the real estate conditions and deregulation described in the previous chapter. It uses interviews with residents to show how the rising cost of living and the transition...
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Haliya and kamaiya bonded child labourers in Nepal
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Birendra Raj Giri
Published: 13 October 2010
...In Nepal, there are between 300,000 and two million bonded labourers under the so-called haliya and kamaiya systems. A bonded-labour system has existed for hundreds of years in Nepal, where children are used by parents to pay off debts incurred to landlords...
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Published: 05 February 2013
...This chapter discusses economic issues and the Bolshevik regime's economic policies. It presents letters written by the peasantry, expressing their views on issues such as land reform, their relations with landlords, improving agriculture, and taxes. civil war kulaks peasants and agrarian policy...
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Published: 27 January 2022
... for landlord neglect and clearance. Almost as soon as it became law it had the effect of filling the already overcrowded Irish workhouse system and dominated debate both during and after the Famine. Moreover, the clause haunted Gregory and his legacy. Commons Cooper’s Hill Diggers 2010s activist group...
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From Landlord to Rentier: The Wealth Management Practices of Irish Landlords, 1903–1933
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Tony McCarthy
Published: 27 January 2022
... of £82.2 million. The Act also had a profound effect on the near 5,000 landlords who sold their estates under its provisions, in that they had to transition from a landlord to rentier class whereby they had to live off the returns generated from their investments rather than their lands. This transition...
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