§ MR. HEALYasked the First Lord of the Treasury, Whether under the Land Law Bill as it now stands, it will be necessary that in sales of land in the Landed Estates Court, the conveyance from the Court, in setting forth the tenancies to which the property may be subject, must state when such tenancies are held under statutory conditions that such is the case; whether if the conveyance does not state this, he has considered that all statutory terms created by the Court under the Bill will be liable to be defeated; whether after the passing of the Land Act of 1870 a simi- 1865 lar question did not arise with regard to the Ulster tenant right custom; whether, in consequence of an expression of opinion of one of the Judges of the Court of Appeal in Ireland, an Act to amend the Land Act of 1870 (34 and 35 Vic. c. 92) had not to be passed making it unnecessary to state in Landed Estate Court conveyances that holdings were subject to the Ulster custom; and, whether therefore, the Government intend to introduce an express provision into the present Land Bill to prevent the same difficulty from arising with regard to statutory terms?
MR. GLADSTONE,in reply, said, he did not in the least degree wish to disparage the importance of the point raised in the Question; but he hoped he would be permitted to adjourn any treatment of it until it came into its proper place in Committee on the Bill. It would cause great confusion if he were to make future portions of the Bill the subject of reply to Questions.