To most lawyers, Shiloh has hitherto signified, according to taste, either sn Old Testament shrine or a battle in the American Civil War, or both. In view of the general Lancastrian sympathy for the Confederate cause in the 1860S, it is presumed that the plaintiff's mill in Shiloh Spinners Ltd. V. Harding, which has given the name a new and daunting association, was named after the second of the two locations. The case, for which leave has been given for an appeal to the house of lords, involved a further consideration of that embattled statute, the Land Charges Act 1925, and of several other points of fundamental importance to land lawyers. This article is mainly concerned with the points concerning the interpretation of the Land Charges Act, which, it will be suggested, contain some unnecessary and alarming novelties. Before considering the complex facts of Shiloh itself, however, a few general observations on the land charge system are needed.