Boundaries Act 1721

Tenant on allowance by landlord for fence shall give bond for preserving;

or not have benefit of allowance.

X. Provided likewise, and be it further enacted, That where the landlord or landlords are obliged to allow his, her, or their tenant or tenants for ditching or fencing between their holdings and their neighbours as aforesaid, such tenant and tenants respectively, to whom such allowance shall be made, shall at the time of making such allowance give security by his or their own bonds of the penalty of the whole sum so allowed to such landlord and landlords, conditioned for the due and effectual weeding of such quicksets planted, and the preserving and keeping up the said ditches and fences, for which they shall be so allowed during their respective terms in the said lands, in good tenantable order and condition; and, in case of refusal to give such bond as aforesaid, such tenant so refusing shall not have the benefit of such allowance, any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.