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<DIV>First of all, can anywhere be more obsessed with buying property than the
UK? (In a more familial way, Greece is unpretentiously
enthusiastic.) But this is a phenomenon that only started between the wars
(esp. in the 1930s), and really took off after the war.</DIV>
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<DIV>Of course, we obsessives, when it is pointed out that European countries
have large numbers of people renting, say: “Well, *someone* must own the
properties”. (Why not us?)</DIV>
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<DIV>But even the well-to-do often rented rather than bought. At the end
of 1924, t<SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-language: en-gb; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa'>he
Hutchinsons had given up River House in Hammersmith ‘(in the manner of the
period it was rented) in favour of a larger residence in Albert Road, Regent’s
Park’.</SPAN></DIV>
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style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-language: en-gb; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa'>Mortgages
– and there were mortgages – were not readily available for buying
property. You are more likely (in Trollope, say) to have bought a
property, and now you have mortgaged it up to the hilt, owing to your gambling
or poor returns on land (agricultural depression, as in “The Importance of Being
Ernest”).</SPAN></DIV>
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style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-language: en-gb; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa'>What
is the difference between renting a property and taking out a lease on a
property? Really, it’s just the legal implications of each – which differ
as the years go on, and the govt deals with the tussle between landlords and
tenants, one govt favouring one and another the other. I think that
someone with a lease might easily have said that “the rent was precisely
twopence half-penny” (i.e. a peppercord rent), even tho’ they actually have a
lease.</SPAN></DIV>
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style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-language: en-gb; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa'>In
England and Wales, Land Law was radically overhauled in 1925. VW wrote:
</SPAN>‘I’m so glad about Gavelkind’ (L3 554) - ‘A law of inheritance, peculiar
to Kent, which divided an intestate’s property among all his sons’ (L3 554 n.
2). Out went gavelkind, scot and lot, and lots of other obscure ways of
“holding” land. We now have only freehold and leasehold. I have a
leasehold of 999 years, which feels like freehold – ah, but you can’t have
freehold of a flat because it doesn’t rest upon the ground. For Land Law
is about Land.</DIV>
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<DIV>I expect you’re no further forward, but I just had to “share”.</DIV>
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<DIV>Stuart</DIV>
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style='FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman",serif'>But the Ramsays
are fictional characters, so I’d stick with renting the house in the
Hebrides…<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=xmsonormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 18pt"><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 16pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman",serif'>Do we know if the
Ramsays were renting the house in the Hebrides, or if they owne</SPAN><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman",serif'>d it?
</SPAN><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Arial",sans-serif'>I had
always assumed their ownership of the place, for a number of reasons. Yet
t</SPAN><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 16pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman",serif'>he
text says “<SPAN style="COLOR: black">Never mind, the rent was precisely
twopence half-penny; the children loved it; it did her husband good to be three
thousand, or if she must be accurate, three hundred miles from his libraries and
his lectures and his disciples” (29)…so they were renting the property?
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style='FONT-SIZE: 16pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman",serif; COLOR: black'>I'm
not finding any evidence that "rent" is another word for, say, mortgage
payment....</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style='FONT-SIZE: 16pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman",serif; COLOR: black'>Edition
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