those engaged in tilling or working the same, or for domestic
animals of any sort, be, and the same is hereby deemed to be, an
outlay of a public nature.

2. That the clauses of "The Land Clauses Consolidation Act 1845,"
"with respect to the purchase of lands by agreement," and "with
respect to the purchase and taking of lands otherwise than by
agreement," and "with respect to the purchase money or compensation
coming to parties having limited interests, or prevented from
treating or not making title," shall be, and they are hereby
incorporated with this act.

3. That every tenant or occupier who has for the past five years
been in possession of any land, tenements, or hereditaments, shall
be considered "a promoter of the undertaking within the meaning of
the said recited act, and shall be entitled to purchase the lands
which he has so occupied, 'either by agreement' 'or otherwise than
by agreement,' as provided in the said recited act."

Then follow some details which it is unnecessary to recite here.]

The 55th William I. secured to freemen the inheritance of their
lands, and they were not able to sell them until the act QUIA
EMPTORES of Edward I. was passed. The tendency of persons to spend
the representative value of their lands and sell them was checked
by the Mosaic law, which did not allow any man to despoil his
children of their inheritance. The possessor could only mortgage
them until the year of jubilee--the fiftieth year. In Switzerland
and Belgium, where the nobles did not entirely get rid of the
FREEMEN, the lands continued to be held in small estates. In