of property, estates, conveyances, &c., led. him, with a view to his own improvement, to make copious extracts from various writers of the highest celebrity, as well ancient as modern, on real property law. He afterwards considered that many other students might participate in the wants which he had himself experienced, and that what had proved useful to him, might also prove beneficial to others. He does not, however, presume to suppose that this desideratum is supplied in the following work, which is designed not so much to satisfy, as to excite enquiry. Various events, have intervened during a period of more than ten years, to check the progress of the work and to delay its publication. It is now submitted to the profession, more as an introduction to other books, than with a view of superseding them. The analytical table may serve as a key to the work. In supplying definitions, much difficulty has in many cases been experienced, but it has still been endeavoured as much as possible to give the ipsissima verba of writers of acknowledged celebrity; and in those instances where the author found rather a description than a definition, which would have been too long, as well as perhaps too vague, to have served the desired purpose, he has been compelled to frame one, but has still given references to one or more authorities upon the subject, that so a further examination may be made by the reader,—any faults detected, and any errors rectified. It has not been thought needful to append definitions to the Chart, bound up with this volume, as they are contained in the work, and references are given in the chart . to each page of this volume, where they are to be found. The provisions of the recent Statute,* to simplify the transfer of property, will be found noticed throughout the work under the respective heads. 3, ELM COURT, TEMPLE, Mich. 1erm, 1844. * 7 & 8 Vict., c. 76. T CONTENTS. Preliminary observations-Origin of our Laws, traced to Feudal System-Feuds-Tenures - Feuds first granted at will of Grantor, then for life, after a while became inheritable-Subtenure-Statute Quia Emp- Property, its origin and nature, classification of, defini- tion of, popular meaning of the term, division of, by Law of England, Real, Personal, Mixed-Corporeal- Lands Tenements - Hereditaments- Money con- sidered in Equity as Land-Incorporeal, definition of, various kinds, 1. Advowsons, 2. Tithes, 3. Commons, of property, estates, conveyances, &c., led him, with a view to his own improvement, to make copious extracts from various writers of the highest celebrity, as well ancient as modern, on real property law. He afterwards considered that many other students might participate in the wants which he had himself experienced, and that what had proved useful to him, might also prove beneficial to others. He does not, however, presume to suppose that this desideratum is supplied in the following work, which is designed not . so much to satisfy, as to excite enquiry. Various events, have intervened during a period of more than ten years, to check the progress of the work and to delay its publication. It is now submitted to the profession, more as an introduction to other books, than with a view of superseding them. |