PRECEDENTS AND FORMS IN CONVEYANCING. THIRD EDITION, BY CHARLES DAVIDSON, THOMAS COOKE WRIGHT, AND JACOB WALEY, OF LINCOLN'S-INN, ESQRS., BARRISTERS-AT-LAW. VOL. I. LONDON: WILLIAM MAXWELL, 32, BELL YARD, LINCOLN'S INN, AND HODGES & SMITH, DUBLIN. PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION. In this Edition of the First Volume the Introduction and Forms have been carefully revised and considerably improved, and several new Forms have been inserted. The Introduction to the Conditions of Sale has been in part re-written, and many new Conditions have been added. 12th March, 1860. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. THE First Edition of the present work, having been commenced by the late Mr. Martin, was published under the name of "Martin's Conveyancing,”—but, in fact, a small portion only of the work was compiled by that gentleman; the latter half of the First Volume, and the whole of the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Volumes (which alone contained Precedents of Assurances), having been compiled by Mr. Davidson. The first part of the First Volume consisted of an Introduction in the nature of a treatise on the investigation of Titles, and the Second Volume contained a collection of Common Forms. Both these portions of the work have been omitted from the Second Edition, and their place is supplied by a brief Introduction explanatory of the principles upon which legal instruments are framed, and of the rules to be |