PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE IN MATTERS OF, AND APPERTAINING TO, CONVEYANCING. INTENDED FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS AND BY JOHN INDERMAUR, SOLICITOR, Author of "Principles of the Common Law," "Principles of Equity," 66 WE have not wings, we cannot soar ; But we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. The heights by great men reached and kept, LONGFELLOW. PREFACE. IN a brief introduction to this work I explain its object and design, and this, in effect, leaves no necessity for any preface. Still, one is inclined to follow ordinary practice, unless there is good reason for departing from it, and, therefore, I give a preface, though in it I have little more to say than to express the obligations I am under to every one of the numerous Authors and Editors whose works will be found quoted in the following pages. Yet, as I am writing a preface, I may as well add a few further words. It is now more than 23 years ago since, very shortly after entering the Profession, I published my "Principles of Common Law." Its very great success (it is now in its eighth edition) induced me to turn my attention to the production of a book, written on similar lines on "Principles of Equity," which I published just 10 years later, and which has also been extremely well received, and is now in its fourth edition. I have long had a great desire to supplement these two works by a third one on " Conveyancing." and the only reason I have not done so before, is the extent of my own occupations, and the special difficulty of the subject. At last, however, I have done what I desired to do, viz., produce a work which, I trust, fairly sets before students, the Principles and |