Excerpt from The Special Land Tenure Bill of 1911: A Critical Analysis As it appeared to our Executive that if the Bill became Law the delimitation of Gavelkind lands would be of no practical value, Mr. Knocker was requested to prepare a Critical Analysis of the Bill itself. This he has been good enough to do at very short notice, and our Fellows and Associates are urged to favour the Society, through me, with their views upon the policy of the proposed measure. It has, of course, been impossible for Mr. Knocker - in the limited time and space at his disposal - to discuss all the results of such a measure, but he undoubtedly shows that they cannot prove so simple or so innocuous as those responsible for the introduction of the Bill possibly anticipate. Surprise, not unmixed with contempt, has frequently been expressed by our Colonists and by our American cousins at the complicated state of our Land Laws and at the piecemeal legislation essayed to bring them into line with modern ideas and requirements. Indeed, many of our own countrymen have passed severe strictures upon the apathy of successive Govern ments in that direction. 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.