ت GENERAL EDITOR: EDWARD JENKS, ESQ., M.A., B.C. L. With the co-operation of the following gentlemen, who have undertaken the revision of portions in which they have special knowledge. W. ASHBURNER, ESQ., M.A., FORMERLY ASSISTANT READER IN EQUITY TO THE COUNCIL OF LEGAL EDUCATION; C. A. MONTAGUE BARLOW, ESQ., LL.D., OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE AND LINCOLN'S INN. T. WILLES CHITTY, ESQ., A MASTER OF THE SUPREME COURT. HUGH FRASER, ESQ., LL.D., READER IN COMMON LAW TO THE COUNCIL OF LEGAL EDUCATION. W. M. GELDART, ESQ., M.A., OF LINCOLN'S INN; FELLOW AND TUTOR OF TRINITY COLLEGE, OXFORD. J. M. GOVER, ESQ., LL.D., EXAMINER TO THE COUNCIL OF LEGAL EDUCATION. W. M. GRAHAM-HARRISON, ESQ., M.A., B.C.L., OF LINCOLN'S INN; LATE FELLOW OF ALL SOULS COLLEGE, OXFORD. F. W. HIRST, ESQ., B. A., OF THE INNER TEMPLE. E. M. KONSTAM, ESQ., OF THE INNER TEMPLE. J. C. LEDLIE, ESQ., M.A., B.C.L., OF H,M. PRIVY COUNCIL OFFICE. ALEXANDER MACMORRAN, ESQ., K.C., M.A., H. STUART MOORE, ESQ., J. A. SIMON, ESQ., M.A., OF THE INNER TEMPLE; FELLOW OF ALL SOULS COLLEGE, OXFORD. AND J. ANDREW STRAHAN, ESQ., LL.B., ASSISTANT READER IN THE LAW OF REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY AND BARRISTERS-AT-LAW, GEORGE HOLDEN, ESQ., AND L. H. WEST, ESQ., LL.D., TUTOR TO THE LAW SOCIETY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, SOLICITORS OF THE SPREME COURT. NOTE.-Each of the above-named Assistant-Editors is responsible only for those chapters of the Work to which his name is prefixed in the Table of Contents.] 11. MR. SERJEANT STEPHEN'S New Commentaries ON THE LAWS OF ENGLAND (PARTLY FOUNDED ON "BLACKSTONE.") BY HIS HONOUR JUDGE STEPHEN. For hoping well to deliver myself from mistaking, by the order and perspicuous expressing of that I do propound, I am other rise zealous and affectionate to recede as "little from antiquity, either in terms or opinions, as may stand with truth, and the "proficience of knowledge."-Lord Bacon, Adv. of Learning. Fourteenth Edition. K UNDER THE GENERAL EDITORSHIP OF EDWARD JENKS, ESQ., M.A., B.C.L., Of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-Law; PRINCIPAL AND DIRECTOR OF LEGAL STUDIES TO THE LAW SOCIETY; OF THE COUNCIL OF LEGAL EDUCATION, AND FELLOW OF KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. THOROUGHLY REVISED AND MODERNISED, AND IN FOUR VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: UK 753 BUTTERWORTH & CO., 12, BELL YARD, TEMPLE BAR, W.C. Law Publishers. CONTENTS OF VOLUME II. Of Executory Interests in Chattels Personal CHAP. II. |