The Evicted Tenants (Ireland) Act 1907 had allowed compulsory acquisition for reinstatement of evicted tenants. The 1909 Act provided wider compulsory powers of acquisition.\u00a0 The Estate Commissioners had powers in relation to both congested estates and untenanted land within their jurisdiction.\u00a0 The affected party could appeal to the judicial commissioner with a further appeal on a point of law.<\/p>\n
The Congested Districts Act had been\u00a0 passed in 1891 to deal with special problems concerning uneconomic holdings along the congested West Coast.\u00a0 The Board’s role concerned land but also stimulation of local industry, improvement of transport and other Activities. The 1909 Act confirmed the congested districts to be the whole of Donegal, Sligo, Leitrim, Roscommon, Mayo, Galway and Kerry, parts of Cork and Clare.<\/p>\n
The 1909 Act reintroduced payment of 3 percent stock with tenants’ annuities at 3.5 percent with a reduced repayment period of 65 percent.\u00a0 A new bonus was introduced for landlords to incentivise.<\/p>\n
The Land Act 1909 transferred the loss on the flotation of the stock from the ratepayers to the exchequer.\u00a0 Future sales were met by 3 percent stock, with the tenant’s annuity varied to 3.25 percent to 3.5 percent stock to back it.\u00a0 A bonus averaging approximately 10 percent in inverse ratio to the arrears purchased was provided for in lieu of the 12 percent bonus under the previous legislation.<\/p>\n
Over 900,000 acres of untenanted land had been acquired by the Board by the eve of independence, either by agreement or compulsorily and had been disposed off to over 46,000 individuals by enlargement of uneconomic holdings or creation of new holdings.<\/p>\n
By the eve of the foundation of the Irish Free State over 316,000 holdings comprising over 11,000,000 acres had been purchased under the various schemes for .<\/p>\n\n
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Encumbered Estates Act A 1849 Act established the Encumbered Estates Court.\u00a0 It authorised sale of lands of mortgaged and insolvent estates so that the purchaser obtained clear title.\u00a0 In 1858 the jurisdiction was transferred to the Landed Estates Court and ultimately to the Chancery division of the High Court. The court facilitated the sale of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28827,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/28827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}