Freehold Land Societies
Their History, Present Position, and Claims By: J. Ewing Ritchie
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Some time back the _Times_ asked scornfully, as Pilate of old did
concerning truth, what was a Freehold Land Society. We reply, viewed in
a business light, it is simply a society for the purchase of land. It
involves two commercial principles well understood—that purchasers should
buy in the cheapest market, and that societies can do what individuals
cannot. Till the movement originated, the purchaser of a small plot of
ground had to pay in lawyer’s expenses connected with the purchase
frequently as much as he paid for the plot itself.
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