Silo - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: siloEnsilage
The process of preserving fodder such as cornstalks rye oats millet etc by compressing it while green and fresh in a pit or vat called a silo where it is kept covered from the air as the ensilage of fodder...
Ensile
To store green fodder in a silo to prepare as silage...
Silo
A pit or vat for packing away green fodder for winter use so as to exclude air and outside moisture See Ensilage...
Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923
Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923 (English) (13 & 14 Geo. 5, cc. 9 and 25). By a series of statutes commencing with the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1875, statutory compensation has been provided for an outgoing agricultural tenant in respect of the improvements effected by him during his tenancy. The operation of this Act could be and frequently was excluded by agreement, but now the tenant cannot deprive himself by contract of the right to claim compensation which is conferred on him by the Act, although he may within limits substitute other benefits by agreement. The Act of 1923 (as amended by the Agricultural Holdings Amendment Act, 1923) repeals and consolidates all the earlier statutes dealing with the subject, and confers on outgoing tenants of 'holdings' the rights and benefits briefly outlined below. The term 'holding' means any parcel of land held by a tenant which is wholly agricultural or wholly pastoral, or in whole or in part cultivated as a market garden, and which is not le...
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