OF THE PRINCIPAL STATUTES RELATING Extending from 13 Edward I. to the end of 37 and 38 Victoria. Entended for the use of Students and Practitioners. SECOND Edition, enlarged. BY GEORGE NICHOLS MARCY, OF LINCOLN'S INN, BARRISTER-AT-LAW. LONDON: DAVIS & SON, 57 CAREY STREET LINCOLN'S INN, w.cCw .U.K. L 1875. X540 19 0.41 M 322c PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. THE primary order of arrangement in the present work is chronological; but where there is a series of Acts upon the same subject, that arrangement has been departed from, in order to admit of such Acts being grouped under one head, as, for example, in the case of the "Statutes of Mortmain," "Judgments," &c. &c. Those sections which have been omitted from the Acts in the present Work will be found, as a rule, to be unimportant; though occasionally they have been omitted as involving matters of detail, for which the Student or Practitioner would always resort to the Act of Parliament itself. LINCOLN'S INN, January 27th, 1873. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. THE present edition has been enlarged not only by the addition of the Statutes passed with reference to Conveyancing during the last Session of Parliament, but also by the insertion of many of the older Acts, more particularly the Statutes of Limitation and the Trustee Acts of 1850 and 1852. In the preparation of this edition, the Author tenders his acknowledgments to the admirable treatise (seventh edition) of the late Leonard Shelford, Esq., upon the Real Property Statutes, passed in the reigns of King William IV. and Queen Victoria, a new and improved edition of which has recently appeared under the able editorship of Mr Thomas H. Carson of Lincoln's Inn. LINCOLN'S INN, December 28th, 1874. |