 | 1874 - 596 pages
...on this subject? ' I have often explained in my speeches what is intended by the term "free land." It means the abolition of the law of primogeniture,...it shall be as easy to buy or sell land as to buy and sell a ship, or, at least, as easy as it is'in Australia and in many or in all the States of the... | |
 | Agriculture - 1874 - 594 pages
..." It means the abolition of tlie law of primogeniture, aud the limitation of the 'system of entaili and settlements, so that ' life interests ' may be for the most part got rid of, and real ownership substituted for them. It means, also, that it shall be as easy to buy or sell land as... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - Anthologies - 1874 - 572 pages
...Mr. Bright's explanation of the term " free land." " It means," he states in a letter to a friend, " the abolition of the law of primogeniture, and the...entails and settlements, so that life interests may, for the most part, be got rid of, and real ownership substituted for them. It means also that it shall... | |
 | Joseph Irving - Great Britain - 1875 - 192 pages
...Pleas. 2. — The Vienna Exhibition closes, having been visited since its opening in May by 7,254,687 people. — Died, at Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, aged...system of entails and settlements, so that ' life interesis ' may be for the most part got rid of, and a real ownership substituted for them. It means... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1880 - 644 pages
...Trade in Land," and this may be explained in the words of a recognized leader of Liberal opinion : — It means the abolition of the law of primogeniture,...it shall be as easy to buy or sell land as to buy and sell a ship, or at least as easy as it is in Australia, and in many, or in all the States of the... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - Great Britain - 1881 - 670 pages
...an explanation of the term 'free land,' on the 2nd of November, 1873, the right hon. gentleman wrote that ' it means the abolition of the law of primogeniture...entails and settlements, so that " life interests " may for the most part be got rid of, and a real ownership substituted for them. It means also that it shall... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - 1882 - 722 pages
...explanation of the term ' free land,' on the 2nd of November, 1873, the right hon. gentleman wrote that ' it means the abolition of the law of primogeniture...entails and settlements, so that " life interests" 'may for the most part be got rid of, and a real ownership substituted for This speech was characterized... | |
 | William Robertson (reporter.) - 1884 - 422 pages
...of his term of " free land." " It means,'' said he, " the sbolitiou of the law of primogeniture, nnd the limitation of the system of entails and settlements,...for them. It means also that it shall be. as easy to bny or sell land as to buy or sell a ship, or at least as easy as it is in Australia and in many or... | |
 | Anthony Howe, Simon Morgan - Political Science - 2006 - 322 pages
...current tactics, gave a definition a few years later when he was asked what was meant by 'free land': It means the abolition of the law of primogeniture...entails and settlements, so that 'life interests' may for the most part be got rid of, and a real ownership substituted for them. It means also that it shall... | |
 | 1874 - 950 pages
...has come into common use. Mr. Bright being asked what he meant by " free land," thus replied : — " It means the abolition of the law of primogeniture,...interests' may be for the most part got rid of, and real ownership substituted for them. It means, also, that it shall be as easy to buy or sell land as... | |
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the abolition of the law of primogeniture and the limitation of the system of entails and settlements, so that ' life interests ' may be for the most part got rid of, and a real ownership substituted for them. It means also that it shall be as easy to... 