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Second Land Act

Great Britain · Government / Liberal Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1882

William Ewart Gladstone1882

Government / Liberal Party Government

Passes the Second Land Act (the First, in 1870, had entitled Irish tenants, if evicted, to compensation for improvements which they had made on their property, but had had little effect) which gives Irish tenants the "3Fs" fair rent, fixity of tenure and free sale

Names involved

William Ewart Gladstone

Provenance

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