PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION. A NEW Edition has become necessary in consequence of the former issue being exhausted. The Statutes and Decisions have been brought down, in the notes, to the present year. J. M. B. Edinburgh, 1882. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. THE preparation of this Edition has been delayed for some time after the former Edition was exhausted, in the view of expected alterations in the Law relating to Scottish Land Rights, which took the form of legislation in the year 1874. The important changes introduced by such Acts as the Titles to Land Consolidation Act and the Land Registers Act of 1868, the Conveyancing and Land Transfer Act of 1874, the Companies Act of 1867, and the Stamp Act of 1870, would alone have rendered a new Edition necessary. As explained on page 198," considerable alterations have been made on the text of the Lecture on the Stamp Laws; and this has been done with the best advice available on the subject. With this exception, the original text remains unaltered,—all new matter being contained in a new series of notes marked alphabetically. The editor gratefully acknowledges the invaluable help he has received from Mr. Donald Crawford, Advocate, and Mr. George M. Paul, W.S., in connection with the work. EDINBURGH, October 1876. J. M. B. a Page 199 of 3d Edition, |