Barry suspects that the Jew's ambition for Irish proprietorship may have been somewhat dashed by the experience of the last few days; that he will be likely enough to weigh the advantages and disadvantages with a juster appreciation than if he had never come here, and, if such be the case, we are ready to meet with a fair and equitable offer.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
In fact, tenant right, so far as it goes, is proprietorship, and it has before now developed into proprietorship even in name.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
The result was more friction, and a further judicial reduction in 1887. Finally, after a series of land-purchase acts designed to promote peasant proprietorship, but too limited in scope to affect general social conditions, had been tried, a number of landlords and some of the Irish leaders held a conference in 1902, and virtually agreed that as both parties claimed rights in the land, the government should pay the landlord for it and transfer it to the tenant, an arrangement the more easy because by that time the landlords' interest had fallen greatly in value.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell