CAPTAIN AYLMERasked Mr. Attorney General for Ireland, Whether, in 1217 the case where a tenant who has borrowed money under the Arrears Bill, repayable over a number of years, dies, and leaves his farm to his eldest son, and the tenant right in same to younger children, the further instalments would be claimed from son, or from the other children; and, in case such tenant right was sold, whether the balance still due would be payable out of proceeds of same?
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. W. M. JOHNSON)regretted that he had failed entirely to understand the Question, which was somewhat of the nature of a legal conundrum. What would, in point of fact, take place would be this—that the half-yearly instalments would be payable by the tenant, and they would be charged upon the tenancy; and if the tenant failed to pay, the tenancy would be sold. The tenancy included the saleable interest of the tenant, and that was what he understood the hon. and gallant Member called his tenant right. If a man left a farm to his son, that included his interest.
CAPTAIN AYLMERsaid, the Question was founded on a statement of the Prime Minister's, who said that in Ulster the tenant sometimes left his farm to his eldest son and the tenant right to his younger children.