OF THE LAW OF REAL PROPERTY. INTENDED AS A First Book FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS IN CONVEYANCING. BY JOSHUA WILLIAMS, ESQ., OF LINCOLN'S INN, BARRISTER-AT-LAW. Third American, from the Seventh English Edition, BY WILLIAM HENRY RAWLE, AUTHOR OF "A TREATISE ON COVENANTS FOR TITLE," AND ADDITIONAL NOTES AND REFERENCES, BY JAMES T. MITCHELL. PHILADELPHIA: T. & J. W. JOHNSON & CO., LAW BOOKSELLERS AND PUBLISHERS, 535 CHESTNUT STREET. 1866. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, BY T. & J. W. JOHNSON & CO., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. L 1651 HENRY B. ASHMEAD, PRINTER, 1102 & 1104 Sansom Street. ADVERTISEMENT TO THE PRESENT AMERICAN EDITION. THE notes of MR. RAWLE to the previous edition, are believed to call attention to every point of observation important to the American student. In a field so extensive as the LAW OF REAL PROPERTY, the present editor has not found it practicable to add materially to the labors of his predecessor, without entering into details which would overburden the text and destroy the usefulness of the work as a "first book for students." He has therefore contented himself with noting the changes made by the author in the last English edition, and revising the notes with the addition of a few later authorities whenever their importance or the clearness with which they discuss the principles involved, seemed to render such addition desirable. The notes of MR. RAWLE are distinguished by the letter R.; those without signature and the portions within brackets, are by the present editor. The paging of the last English edition has been preserved in the margin, and the references throughout the work are to this paging. PHILADELPHIA, September, 1866. |