MR. FITZ-PATRICKasked Mr. Solicitor General for Ireland, Whether "The Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881" prevents the landlord and tenant of a 1816 future tenancy, created after 1st of January, 1883, from contracting freely for such lease as they please, or whether such a lease should conform to the requirements of a judicial lease, under the tenth section of the Act?
§ THE SOLICITOR GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. PORTER),in reply, said, the Question referred to the construction of certain clauses of the Land Act. He did not think it desirable, or in accordance with precedent, that an official opinion should be pronounced in the House on an abstract question of law, which could not at present assume a practical form, and which afterwards might become the subject of legal proceedings.