William Frederick Bailey

“ Even when compensation was awarded, the landlord could deduct from the amount for rates and taxes and for the loss due to the non-observance of express or implied covenants or agreements, and the Court in awarding compensation was required, in reduction of the claim of the tenant, to take into consideration the time during which the tenant may have enjoyed the advantages of such improvements, and any other benefits he may have had. ”

“ The great variety and complexity of the exceptions from the benefits of the Act.
(2) The principle of administration which, as a rule, tended to reduce the compensation to as low a figure as possible. ”