Free sale, fixity of tenure, and fair rent
Free sale, fixity of tenure, and fair rent, also known as the Three Fs, were a set of demands first issued by the Tenant Right League in their campaign for land reform in Ireland from the 1850s. They were,
- Free sale—meaning a tenant could sell the interest in his holding to an incoming tenant without landlord interference;
- Fixity of tenure—meaning that a tenant could not be evicted if he had paid the rent;
- Fair rent—meaning rent control: for the first time in the United Kingdom, fair rent would be decided by land courts, and not by the landlords.[1]
Many historians argue that their absence contributed severely to the Great Irish Famine (1846–49), as it allowed the mass eviction of starving tenants. The Three Fs were campaigned for by a number of political movements, notably the Independent Irish Party (1852–1858) and later the Irish Parliamentary Party during the Land War (from 1878). They were conceded by the British Government in a series of Irish Land Acts enacted from the 1870s on, with essentially full implementation in the Land Law (Ireland) Act 1881.[2]
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- New Departure
- No Rent Manifesto (1881)
- Kilmainham Treaty (1882)
- Plan of Campaign (1886–1891)
- Land Conference (1902–1903)
- Ranch War (1906–1909)
- Irish farm subdivision
- Coercion Act
- Land Acts
- 1870
- 1881
- 1885
- 1887
- 1903
- Irish Republican Brotherhood (1858)
- Route Tenants' Defence Association (1869)
- Irish Parliamentary Party (1874)
- Irish National Land League (1879)
- Irish Land Commission (1881)
- Irish National League (1882)
- Irish Land and Labour Association (1890)
- United Irish League (1898)
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- Alternative law
- Boycott
- Free sale, fixity of tenure, and fair rent
- Great Famine
- Highland Land League
- Irish republicanism
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