Browsing by Subject "Land purchase"
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Land purchase in Ireland: a retrospect and a forecast
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1913)When presenting to you this evening a retrospect of the progress of Land Purchase in Ireland since 1885, it is not necessary to refer to the various causes which led up to the then existing dead-lock in the sale and ... -
The land purchase problem
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1906)It is a far cry from the turbulent scenes in the Legislative Assembly of 1790 to the quiet, almost dull, offices of the Estates Commissioners in 1906; and yet the changes that in the one case were effected with noise ... -
On fiscal relations of the United Kingdom and Ireland, with special reference to the state purchase of land
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1886)A scheme was put forward some short time ago, which promised to effect a radical and sweeping change in the ownership of the land, without imposing any great hardship or additional burden on any class in the State. Mr. ... -
On the effect of the limitation of Parliamentary Title to Ireland, in promoting purchases of land by English and Scotch capitalists
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1855)When the sales of land first took place under the Incumbered Estates Act, it was expected that there would be a very large number of English purchasers. So strong was this impression, that one of the Commissioners was ... -
On the system of deducting a "Per-centage" from the purchase money of estates sold with Parliamentary Title, with a view to the abolition of fees in Chancery
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1857)A Bill was prepared in the early part of last year to alter the constitution, procedure and practice, to increase the powers, and diminish the expense of in the Court of Chancery in Ireland and to discontinue the Incumbered ... -
Report on the alterations and amendments necessary in the present system of sale and mortgage of land in Ireland
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1853)It will be found convenient in the following report, to adopt the division naturally suggested by the subject proposed for my examination; and accordingly I shall treat in their order, first, of the present system of ... -
Some statistics respecting the sales of incumbered estates in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1851)In this paper I propose to direct your attention to some statistical information which I have collected respecting the sales of estates in Ireland by the Incumbered Estates Court. The questions which I proposed to myself ... -
Statistics to illustrate the lands of business which joint stock companies are suited to carry on, especially with respect to investments in land
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1852)My attention has been lately directed to the subject of public companies, by the many plans recently brought before the public for the formation of such associations for the purpose of buying land, and sometimes for ... -
The woods, forests, turf-bogs, and foreshores of Ireland: opportunity for, and advisibility of, establishing government management and protection
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1890)In the paper on "Forestry in Ireland," read by me before the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, in July, 1889, I described at some length the forestry regulations of the principal European countries, and ...