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PREFACE

TO THE TENTH EDITION.

In this Edition, as in former ones, the work has been carefully revised throughout, additions have been made, and the cases and statutes are brought down to the date of publication.

June, 1881

F. P.

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JULY, 1881.

Prideaux's Precedents in Conveyancing.-With Dissertations on its Law and Practice. Tenth Edition. By FREDERICK PRIDEAUX, late Professor of the Law of Real and Personal Property to the Inns of Court, and JOHN WHITCOMBE, Esqrs., Barristers-at-Law. In 2 vols. Royal 8vo. 1881. Price 31. 10s. cloth.

"We have been always accustomed to view 'Prideaux' as the most useful work out on conveyancing. It combines conciseness and clearness in its precedents with aptness and comprehensiveness in its dissertations and notes, to a degree superior to that of any other work of its kind."-Law Journal.

Fry's Specific Performance.-A Treatise on the Specific

Performance of Contracts. By the Hon. Sir EDWARD FRY, one of the Judges of
the High Court of Justice. Second Edition. By the Author and W. DONALDSON
RAWLINS, of Lincoln's-Inn, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, M.A., and late Fellow of
Trinity College, Cambridge. Royal 8vo. 1881. Price £1 168, cloth,

Theobald on Wills.-A Concise Treatise on the Law of Wills.
With Statutes, Table of Cases and full Index. By H.S. THEOBALD, of the Inner
Temple, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, and Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford. Second
Edition. Demy 8vo. 1881. Price £1 4s. cloth.

Palmer's Company Precedents.-Second Edition. For use
in relation to Companies subject to the Companies' Acts, 1862 to 1880. Arranged as
follows:-Agreements, Memoranda and Articles of Association, Prospectus, Reso-
lutions, Notices, Certificates, Debentures, Petitions, Orders, Reconstruction, Amal-
With Copious Notes. By FRANCIS
gamation, Arrangements, Private Acts.
BEAUFORT PALMER, Esq., Barrister-at-Law. Royal 8vo. 1881. Price 11. 10s. cloth.
"To those who are acquainted with the first edition we recommend the second edition as a
great improvement; to those who are not, we recommend an early acquaintance therewith, if,
either as lawyers or business men, they are in any way connected with companies."-Law Journal.

Browne and Theobald's Law of Railway Companies.

Being a Collection of the Acts and Orders relating to Railway Companies. With Notes of all the Cases decided thereon, and Appendix of Bye-Laws, and Standing Orders of the House of Commons. By J. H. BALFOUR BROWNE, of the Middle Temple, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, Registrar to the Railway Commissioners; and H. S. THEOBALD, of the Inner Temple, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, and Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford. In 1 vol., Demy 8vo. 1881. Price £1 12s. cloth. "As far as we have examined the volume the learned authors seem to have presented the profession and the public with the most ataple information to be found, whether they want to know how to start a railway, how to frame its bye-laws, how to work it, how to attack it for injury to person or property, or how to wind it up."-Law Times.

Odgers on Libel and Slander.-A Digest of the Law of

Libel and Slander, with the Evidence, Procedure, and Practice, both in Civil and
Criminal Cases, and Precedents of Pleadings. By W. BLAKE ODGERS, M.A.,
LL.D., Barrister-at-Law, of the Western Circuit. Demy 8vo. 1881. (pp. 820.)
Price 1l. 4s. cloth.

"We have rarely examined a work which shows so much industry.

So

good is the book, which in its topical arrangement is vastly superior to the general run of law books, that criticism of it is a compliment rather than the reverse."Law Journal.

Woodfall's Law of Landlord and Tenant.-With a full

Collection of Precedents and Forms of Procedure. Containing also an Abstract of
Leading Propositions, and Tables of certain Customs of the Country. Twelfth
Edition, in which the Precedents of Leases have been revised and enlarged, with the
assistance of L. G. G. Robbins, Esq. By J. M. LELY, of the Inner Temple, Esq.,
Barrister-at-Law Royal 8vo. 1881. Price 11. 18s. cloth.

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STEVENS AND SONS, 119, CHANCERY LANE, W.C.

Chitty's Statutes from Magna Charta to 1880.-New Edition. A Collection of Statutes of Practical Utility. Arranged in Alphabetical and Chronological Order; with Notes thereon. The Fourth Edition. Coutaining the Statutes and Cases down to the end of the second Session of the year 1880. By J. M. LELY, Esq., Barrister-at-Law. In 6 vols. Royal 8vo. (8316 pp.) 1880. Price 121. 128. cloth. This Edition is printed in larger type than former Editions, and with increased facilities for reference.

"The practitioner has only to take down one of the compact volumes of Chitty, and he has at once before him all the legislation on the subject in hand."-Solicitors' Journal.

Coote's Treatise on the Law of Mortgage.-Fourth Edition.

Thoroughly revised. By WILLIAM WYLLYS MACKESON, Esq., one of Her
Majesty's Counsel. Royal 8vo. 1880. Price 21. 2s. cloth.

"Mr. Mackeson may be congratulated on the success with which he has converted an old and
rather long-winded text-book into a complete, terse, and practical treatise for the modern
lawyer."-Solicitors' Journal.

Pitt-Lewis' Complete Practice of the County Courts,

embodying the Acts, Rules, Forms, and Costs, with additional Forms, Table of Cases, and a full Index. By G. PITT-LEWIS, of the Western Circuit, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, sometime Holder of the Studentship of the Four Inns of Court, assisted by H. A. DE COLYAR, Esq., Barrister-at-Law. In 2 vols. Demy 8vo. 1880. (2028 pp.) Price 21. 2s. cloth. "An excellent index completes a work which, in our opinion, is one of the best books of practice which is to be found in our legal literature."-Law Times. Greenwood's Manual of Conveyancing.-A Manual of the

Practice of Conveyancing, showing the present Practice relating to the daily routine of Conveyancing in Solicitors' Offices. To which are added Concise Common Forms and Precedents in Conveyancing. Sixth Edition. Thoroughly revised. By HARRY GREENWOOD, M.A., Esq., Barrister-at-Law, Author of "Recent Real Property Statutes, consolidated with Notes." Demy 8vo. 1881. Price 15s. cloth.

We should like to see it, or some such work, placed by his principal in the hands of every articled clerk, at a very early period of his articles. It is, altogether, one of the most useful practical works we have ever seen."-INDERMAUR's Law Student's Journal, March 1, 1881. Lowndes' Practical Treatise on the Law of Marine

Insurance. By RICHARD LOWNDES, Author of "The Law of General Average," &c. Demy 8vo. 1881. Price 10s. 6d. cloth.

"It is rarely, indeed, that we have been able to express such unqualified approval of a new legal work."-Solicitors' Journal.

Macaskie's Treatise on the Law of Executors and Ad

ministrators, and of the Administration of the Estates of Deceased Persons, with an Appendix of Statutes and Forms. By STUART CUNNINGHAM MACASKIE, of Gray's Inn, Esq., Barrister-at-Law. Demy 8vo. 1881. Price 10s. 6d cloth. Pollock's Digest of the Law of Partnership.-Second Edition, with Appendix, containing an annotated reprint of the Partnership Bill, 1880, as amended in Committee. By FREDERICK POLLOCK, of Lincoln's Inn, Esq., Barrister-at-Law. Author of "Principles of Contract at Law and in Equity.' Demy 8vo. 1880. Price 8s. 6d. cloth.

"Of the execution of the work, we can speak in terms of the highest praise."-Law Magazine.

Wigram's Justices' Note Book.-Second Edition. Corrected

to December, 1880. With an Index. By W. KNOX WIGRAM, Esq., Barristerat-Law, J.P. Middlesex. Royal 12mo. 1881. Price 12s. 6d. cloth.

"We have nothing but praise for the book."-Solicitors' Journal.

"This is altogether a capital book. Mr. Wigram is a good lawyer and a good justices' lawyer."Law Journal.

Steer's Parish Law; being a Digest of the Law relating to

the Civil and Ecclesiastical Government of Parishes, and the Relief of the Poor. Fourth Edition. By WALTER HENRY MACNAMARA, of the Inner Temple, Esq., Barrister-at-Law. Demy 8vo. 1881. Price 168. cloth.

"An exceedingly useful compendium of Parish Law."-Law Times.

Peel's Chancery Actions.-A. Concise Treatise on the

Practice and Procedure in Chancery Actions. By SYDNEY PEEL, Esq., Barristerat-Law. Second Edition. Demy 8vo. 1881. Price 8s. 6d. cloth.

"There has been added, in the present edition, a few supplemental chapters dealing shortly with applications in chambers, proceedings in chambers under judgment, and further consideration; and to increase facility of reference, a table of orders is also added."-Extract From Preface.

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