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Donate nowThe right hon. and learned Gentleman has referred to the case of the De Keyser Hotel, and of course there are many other offices which have been occupied by the Government. Will this provision, if passed, deprive the owners of those properties of the right to go to the Courts which they now possess?
I would like to suggest this point. Suppose you have two houses adjoining one another, and both are being taken. One of them is a freehold and the other a leasehold, but both houses are exactly the same. Is a different price to be paid for similar properties? The suggestion is that because there is a ground rent on one, and a leasehold interest in it, those two properties in that one property...
I do not think that is so.
Former MP for Spen Valley
Entered the House of Commons on 4 July 1892 — General election
Left the House of Commons on 9 November 1919 — Died
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