THE LANDLORD vereue THE TRADESMAN. Ito vu moms or vs.
"13PICTAT013."1 SIR,—In your article on "Sentiment and Law" (January 22nd, p. 104), you. say,-.." A landlord's claim is as good as that of a
butcher, or baker, or any other honest creditor ; but we do not see that it is any better." Are you right ? A butcher or baker may stop giving further credit the instant he doubts the ability or willingness of his debtor to pay ; but a landlord cannot. He has to give notice to quit, and on the expiry of such notice, has often with such debtors to take costly proceedings to enable him to get possession of his property, and thus stop the further supply of his goods. To assimilate his claim to that of the butcher or baker, you must give him power to stop supplying his wares as soon as he likes ; but any alteration in the law to effect this would, I take it, cause greater hardship to the debtor than any possible benefit. This I presume is the main reason =why rent is still regarded as a preferential am, Sir, &c., Egerton Park, Birkenhead. GEORGE GRIERSON.
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