PRINTED FOR JOSEPH BUTTERWORTH AND SON, AND J. COOKE, ORMOND QUAY, DUBLIN. ADVERTISEMENT ΤΟ THIS THIRD EDITION. THE favourable reception which this Work has met with from the Profession, induced the Author to add to the second edition a Preliminary Dissertation on Tenures; together with a Chapter on the Statute of Frauds; and also to use his utmost endeavours, by a careful revision and correction of the whole, and by the addition of many new cases, to render it more complete. This Third Edition has been carefully revised and improved by the addition of several cases and references. PREFACE ΤΟ THE FIRST EDITION. ALTHOUGH the Law of Real Property forms the most extensive and abstruse branch of our jurisprudence, yet no attempt has hitherto been made to reduce it to a distinct and comprehensive system. A Digest of this part of the Law is therefore here offered to the Profession; in which a systematic distribution is framed of the general principles of each Title; supported by abridgments of the cases, in which those principles have been established, or confirmed. It is but of late years that this mode of treating legal subjects has been adopted. Our |