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Ch. 92.]
Agricultural Holdings (Eng.)
[38–9 Vict.

CHAPTER 92.




AD. 1875.An Act for amending the Law relating to Agricultural Holdings in England.

[13th August, 1875.]


BE it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:


Preliminary.

Short title.1.—This Act may be cited as The Agricultural Holdings (England) Act, 1875.

Commencement of Act.2.—This Act shall commence from and immediately after the fourteenth of February one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.

Extent of Act.3.—This Act shall not extend to Scotland or Ireland.

Interpretation.4.—In this Act—

"Contract of tenancy" means a letting of land for a term of years, or for lives, or for lives and years, or from year to year, or at will.
"Determination of tenancy" means the cesser of a contract of tenancy by reason of effluxion of time, or from any other cause:
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