tenant-purchaser's

Updated: May 20, 2025

Dillon ingeminating dissent decided in so far as landlords and tenants were concerned, two things: It was agreed that where the tenant-purchaser's instalment, after purchase, was substantially less than his statutory rent revised at great cost £140,000 a year for Land Courts then, in those cases the State needed not to inquire at further cost and delay into either its own security in the holding, or the metaphysical distinction between value due to the landlord's ownership of the soil and value due to the tenant's improvement of the soil.

- Against Home Rule (1912): The Case for the Union