...prompt payment the tenant was quit of any other service except fealty. Ricardo has defined rent as "that portion of the produce of the earth, which is...original and indestructible powers of the soil.'" In Maryland the rent was originally paid in kind and not by money payments. It was from the quit-rents...

...such cases, be found to have lost the character attributed to it by Ricardo. It will not be paid only for the use of " the original and indestructible powers of the soil." Nay, it will be difficult, if not impossible, in any case where rent is paid for land, to ascertain...

..." applied to whatever is annually paid by a farmer to his landlord," is confined, by Ricardo, to " that portion of the produce of the earth which is...the original and indestructible powers of the soil." 6 The analytical description of a market, as given by Jevons,7 is another instance, and many such cases...

..." applied to whatever is annually paid by a farmer to his landlord," is confined, by Ricardo, to " that portion of the produce of the earth which is...use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil."6 The analytical description of a market, as given by Jevons,7 is another instance, and many...

...accredited to land from such improvements. Ricardo says, " Principles of Political Economy," chapter ii. : "Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth...original and indestructible powers of the soil. It is ofteu, however, confounded with the interest and profit of capital, and, in popular language, the term...

...contradicts in the last half of the sentence the criterion laid down in the first half. Ricardo says: "Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth...the original and indestructible powers of the soil. On the first settling of a country in which there is an abundance of rich and fertile land, a very...

...Ricardo die Grundrente auf dem Unterschied zwischen den Erträgen zweier Grundstücke beruht, die zu *) „Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth...original '.and indestructible powers of the soil." Ricardos Works, aa 0. S. 34. s) „Rent is always the differenoe between the produoe obtained by the...

...contradicts in the lust half of the sentence the criterion told down in the first half. nicardo says : " Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth which...the original and Indestructible powers of the soil. On the first settling of a country in which there is an abundance of rich and fertile land, a very...

...contradicts iu the last half of the sentence the criterion laid down in the first half. Ricardo wiys: "Bent is that portion of the produce of the earth which...use of the original and indestructible powers of the (oil. On the first settling of a country in which there is an abundance of rich and fertile land, a...

...inconsistency of the argument is absolute. To say that the ransom paid for what is dug out of the soil is given "for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil" is to reduce the definition to an absurdity.1 If that definition is to be stretched over either of...