HL Deb 02 February 1860 vol 156 c443
LORD BROUGHAM

said, he wished to set right a mistake which had gone abroad, that the measure proceeded on the same principle as that of his learned Friend Sir Hugh Cairns. He stated a few nights ago that the principle of the Bill was the same as that of two Bills he introduced last Session, and the Session before—namely, to extend to all conveyances the customary tenure of copyhold conveyance known in the North of England. That was stated to be the prayer of the petition he presented the other evening, and to that object the Bill was confined. Alterations he had made in the Bill were intended to supply some defects which that of Sir Hugh Cairns was intended to supply; and he thought this measure would supply them more advantageously than that of his learned Friend.