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Rh the eldest has to pay the others their share of the father's beneficial interest; and the competition price is their standard of valuation. Consequently the permanent tenant finds himself in the same position as if he had bought the farm from a stranger:—that is to say, destitute of capital and probably in debt:—while the brothers walk off with a sum of money which if the rent is as fair as the theory of the arrangement pre-supposes, can represent no real value, and to which therefore they have much less right than the landlord,