§ Mr. Aglionby moved for leave to bring in "a Bill to facilitate the recovery of possession of tenements after due determination of the tenancy." It was not necessary for him to trouble the House with the details of the measure, as the Bill which he desired leave to introduce was substantially the same as the measures on the same subject which he had brought forward in the last two Sessions. There was a positive necessity for some alteration of the law relating to landlord and tenant with regard to the recovery of small tenements; and while he was anxious to relieve the landlord from the difficulty with which he had to contend, in consequence of the present state of the law he made due provision for the protection of any party who might be unjustly dispossessed of his holding. Where tenements, under the value of 20l. a-year, were improperly held over after the expiration of the tenancy, he proposed to invest two magistrates with jurisdiction to afford relief to the landlord, and in all cases beyond 20l. he meant that the party seeking possession should be entitled, after action brought, to go before a judge for the purpose of obtaining, by a summary proceeding, an order for the delivery of the possession of the premises wrongfully withheld. This was the general effect of the Bill; but, if in the course of its stages, any suggestions should be made for the purpose of rendering it more perfect than it was, without interfering with its principle, he could only say, that he would be most happy to adopt them.
§ Leave given, and Bill brought in.