DISTRESS.) The term "emblements" is unknown in Scots law, but the heir or representative of a life-rent tenant, a life-renter of lands, has an analogous right to reap the crop (on paying a proportion of the rent) and a right to recompense for labour in tilling the ground. The Landlord and Tenant Act, 1851 (s. 1) was in force in Ireland till 186o, when it was replaced by the Land Act, 186o, which gave to the tenant an almost identical right to emblements (s. 34). (See also IRELAND; LANDLORD AND TENANT.) In the United States the English common law of emblements has been generally preserved.
Under the French Code Civil, the outgoing tenant is entitled to convenient housing for the consumption of his fodder and for the harvests remaining to be got in (art. 1,777). The same rule is in force in Belgium (Code Civil, art. ; and in Holland (Civil Code, art. 1,635) ; and Spain (art. 1,578). Similar rights are secured to the tenant under the German Civil Code (arts. 592, et seq.) . French law is in force in Mauritius; the common law of England and the Landlord and Tenant Act, 1851 (14 and 15 Vict., c. 25, s. I) in many of the British colonies acquired by settlement. In others they are recognized by statute.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.--English Law: W. H. Fawcett, Landlord and Tenant Bibliography.--English Law: W. H. Fawcett, Landlord and Tenant (3rd ed., 1905) ; E. Foa, Landlord and Tenant (6th ed., 1924) . Scots Law: G. J. Bell, Principles of the Law of Scotland (loth ed., 1899). Irish Law: F. Nolan and R. R. Kane, Statutes relating to the Law of Landlord and Tenant in Ireland (5th ed., by R. J. Kelly, 1898) . American Law: F. J. Stimson, American Statute Law (Cambridge, Mass., 1886) ; J. Bouvier, Law Dictionary, ed. by Rawle (Boston and London, 1897) ; Ruling Cases (London and Boston, 1894-1901), tit. "Emblements" (American Notes) . (A. W. R.)