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Show Corfu's Queer Laws. Corfu, where a magnificent marbl palace belonging to the German em peror, is said to have just been pur chased by an American millionaire, can boast of the most peculiar land laws in the world. The landlords are nearly all absentees, and their tenants hold the land on a perpetual lease in return for a rent payable in kind and fixed at a certain proportion of the produce. Such a tenant Is considered a co-owner co-owner of the soil, and he cannot be expelled but for non-payment of rent, bad culture, or the transfer of his lease without the landlord's permission. permis-sion. Attempts have been made to alter the law, but both landlord and tenants ten-ants are apparently satisfied with a --- that dates tack to the t'nie o' JTnmn |