Cottier Tenant (Ireland) Act, 1856

Outgoing Tenant to have Compensation for Crops.

IV. Whenever the Tenant shall have sown or planted upon the Tenement any growing Crop, which he shall be unable to save by reason of the Determination of the Tenancy, the Justices shall, by a distinct Order, fix such Sum (if any) as they shall think a fair Compensation to him for the Loss of such Crop, after all just and proper Deductions on account of any Arrear of Rent due by the said Tenant to the Landlord for the said Tenement; and no Warrant shall be issued to execute the Order for Possession until the Landlord shall have paid or tendered to the Tenant or allowed him Credit for the Sum so fixed by the Order for Compensation.