Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Act, 1870

Proceedings by tenant in respect of claims.

16. Every tenant entitled under this Act to make any claim in respect of any right or for payment of any sums due to him by way of compensation, and about to quit his holding, may within the prescribed time serve a notice of such claim on his landlord, or in his absence his known agent; the notice shall be in writing in the prescribed form, and shall state the particulars of such claim, subject to such amendment as the Court may allow, together with the dates at which and the periods within which such particulars are severally alleged to have accrued, and, where such claim or any part of the same is in respect of compensation under the provisions of section three of this Act the number of years rent claimed shall be specified.