Hynes v Duke of Devonshire

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Judgment Date: 01 January 1928
• Date: 01 January 1928
• Court: High Court (Irish Free State)

H.C.,

Hynes

and

Duke of Devonshire

Whether enforceable by landlord after the passing of the Land Act, 1923 - Tenanted land -"Appointed day" not fixed Land Act, 1923 (No. 42 of 1923), s. 24 (1), s. 45 (1), (2).

Sporting rights over certain lands which were reserved exclusively to a landlord by an order of the Land Commission Court made in 1910 fixing the fair rent, did not cease to be enforceable by him upon the passing of the Land Act, 1923, the lands in question being "tenanted lands" within that Act, and the "appointed day" not having been fixed Lynam v. ButlerIR, [1925] 2 I. R. 231, applied.