§ Order for Second Reading read.
§ Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Bill be now read a second time."
§ Sir HILDRED CARLILEMay we have some account of this Bill before we are asked to pass it?
§ Sir RUFUS ISAACSThis Bill is to amend certain sections of the Conveyancing and Law of Property Act of 1881, and the point of it is to remove certain restrictions which have been found to be inconvenient in the working of the Act of 1881, and also to give certain rights which it is thought should be given in order to carry out remedies which are given under the Conveyancing and Law of Property Act. There is nothing controversial in it. The Bill, I am sure, has been considered by hon. and learned Gentlemen on the other side of the House as well as upon this.
§ Mr. WATSON RUTHERFORDThe general purposes of the Bill are very beneficial, but whether the House should be asked to deal with a matter of this importance under the present circumstances, and without giving the thing thorough consideration, is quite another point, and it is for that reason that many of us would rather have had a Bill like this properly discussed on a proper occasion.
Bill read a second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House for Monday next, 13th November.