Présentation de l'éditeur
As yet, however, it cannot be said that the phase of land-law reform treated of in these pages has received the attention it deserves. Unearned increment is an expression which has long figured more or less prominently in the works of Liberal and Socialistic economists, both English and Continental, but it has not yet become a commonplace of polemic. If the present inquiry into the meaning and bearings of this still dignified phrase should take away something of its obscurity for the popular mind, a good purpose will certainly have been served. It was the complaint of the elder Pliny that great estates were ruining I taly. We have in the United Kingdom a multitude of plethoric domains, and the belief is rapidly growing that their existence is not an unmixed blessing. Yet while we may run no risk, or little, of being ruined by the magnitude of individual estates, very great danger may be apprehended from the magnitude of land-values in this country, so long as, to use the words of John Stuart Mill, an accession of wealth created by circumstances is allowed to become an unearned appendage to the riches of a particular class.
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Whereas I heretofore bought of Bichard Falkingham, Esq., divers lands and tenements .. .part of which I since sold to several persons for a good sum of money more than I purchased the same for, I thought myself bound to bestow upon the eldest son of John Green and the eldest son of Bichard Hamerton, who married the co-heirs of the said Bichard Falkingham, the surplus of all such moneys as I sold the lands for, over and above whatt indeed, they cost me. (F rom a codicil to the will of John Harrison, of Leeds, 1579-1656, given in Camden s Britannia, edition 1685, p. 730.
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