The system of "corn rents," already referred to,
proved an effective means of adjusting rents to
prices at the time when this problem was prov-
ing disastrous to the long term lease in England.
At the present time the Agricultural Holdings
Act of Scotland is practically the same as that in
force in England. While it continues to be the
custom among Scottish landlords and tenants to
have long term leases drawn, it has become the
common thing to include a clause which makes
it possible for either the landlord or the tenant to
bring the tenancy to a close at certain periods, as
for example, at the end of the fifth, tenth or fif-
teenth year, or at the end of the second, fourth,
sixth, etc., year, by giving proper notice to the
other party. In effect, therefore, the long term
lease is passing away, for the same object is now
attained through the Agricultural Holdings Act.
