Excerpt from Reports of Cases Decided by the Irish Land Commission When we found ourselves entrusted with the execution of a measure designed to confer great and immediate benefits upon the Irish tenant who should avail himself of them - the benefit, above all, of a secure tenure at a fair rent - and containing pro abling him to become the absolute and unfettered owner of his holding - when this great trust was committed to us, we resolved to do our utmost to render the procedure through which these great ends were to be attained one of extreme simplicity, as free as possible from all the snares and pitfalls of technicalities. Whoever has read the Rules and Forms which, in obedience to the Act, we have framed and promulgated, can judge in what degree we have succeeded in effecting this object. There are no pleadings, no elaborate enumeration of particulars, no statement of claim or of dispute. A tenant, for example, desiring to have a fair rent fixed for his holding, serves notice on his landlord, saying so, and stating the circumstances of his holding as to situation, present rent, and valuation - all of which lie easily within his own know ledges He has his choice as to the Court. He may either select the Civil Bill Court of the county or the Land Commis sion. And so soon as a copy of the notice is transmitted by post to the Clerk of the Peace or the Secretary of the Land Commission, the case is in Court, and will as early as possible receive a trial. Further, as we have sought to render the pro ceedings simple, so we have endeavoured to make them inexpen sive. The sole duties made chargeable are a shilling on each Originating Notice (that is, the notice which brings the ease into Court) and a shilling on each Notice of Appeal. We thought it right that these small duties should be imposed, if for nothing else, as a test of good faith, and they are such as no suitor com mencing proceedings in good faith would complain of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.