T. CYPRIAN WILLIAMS, OF LINCOLN'S INN, BARRISTER-AT-LAW, LL.B.; LATE LECTURER ON CONVEYANCING TO THE LONDON: SWEET & MAXWELL, LIMITED, 3, CHANCERY LANE. DUBLIN: HODGES, FIGGIS, & CO.; AND E. PONSONBY. 1896. PREFACE TO THE EIGHTEENTH EDITION. IN this edition the alterations made in the law since the publication of the last edition have been incorporated in the text; and the whole text has been carefully revised. The chapter on equitable estates has been partly re-written, chiefly owing to the presentation by Professor AMES, of Harvard, of a new view of the history of simple trusts of land after the Statute of Uses and of the development of the doctrine of "No use upon a use." Since the publication of the last edition, the result of modern researches into the origin and early history of our law has been most admirably stated in Sir F. POLLOCK and Professor MAITLAND'S History of English Law. References to that work have accordingly been inserted in the present volume whenever any point or question there discussed is here mentioned. Mr. KENNETH F. WOOD has again prepared the general index and the index to the cases, year-books, and statutes cited. 7, STONE BUILDINGS, LINCOLN'S INN, 16th October, 1896. |