CONTENTS.

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PREFACE,

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CHAPTER 1.-AGREEMENTS FOR PURCHASE AND SALE, OF TITLE.

NOTES -Interest of Purchase Money. -The Abstract. - The Doubtful Title

to Part.-Errors in Description. Custody of Deeds. Fixtures.-Pur-

chaser's Employment of Vendor's Solicitor.-Profit and Loss accruing

after Contract.-Policies of Assurance. Shares.-Shipping. -Conditions

of Sale. The Contract. Special Clauses. - Vendor's lien.-Purchaser in

Possession.-Purchase money Invested. -Dower.-Infancy.-Liquidated

Damages,.

FORMS. Sale of a Freehold Estate. Clauses.-Sale by Way of Lease.-

Liquidated Damages. - Agreements; for Building a House; Rebuilding

a Mill; Purchase of Leasehold, Property, &c. -To sell and assigu Bond

and Mortgage. -For Plasterer's and Bricklayer's Work.-Charter Party.

-Statute respecting Written Promises and Acknowledgments of Lia-

bility,..

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CHAPTER II.-ARBITRATION.

NOTES,

FORMS.-Agreement of Reference in Writing. -Order of Reference to, at

Nisi Prius.-Arbitration Bond. General Submission to Arbitration.-

Special Submission.-Award.-Award by an Umpire.-Award by Ref-

erees. Release to be Executed by Party to an Arbitration, when re-

quired in the Award.-Arbitration Clauses,

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CHAPTER III.-OF SALES BY AUCTION.

NOTES. Of Sales by Private Contract. -Statute of Frauds,.

FORMS.-Conditions of Sale. -Conditions of Title.-Preparation of Abstract.

-Sixty years' Title.-Ancient Documents. - Reversionary Interests.-

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CHAPTER III. Continued.

Leaseholds. Untechnical Words. - Wills.-Debts and Legacies-De-

crees. The Abstract. Indemnity.-Right to Demand Completion.-

Specific Performance. - Mis-description. Evidence of Title.-Deeds De-

stroyed. Recitals. - Expense of Proofs. Prior defect in Title.-Wills.-

Inadequate Price. Indemnity.-Sales under Decree.-Possession.-

Rents and Profits. -Neglect to Pay.-Release. - Production of Deed.

-Leases of Modern Date.-Of Conveyance to Purchaser.-Execution

and Attestation.-Assignment of Leaseholds.-FORMS OF DEEDS OF CON-

VEYANCE.-Clauses in Deeds of Conveyance. --Statute respecting Short

Forms of Conveyance. Statute respecting Real Property. Statute re-

specting the Conveyance of Real Estate by Married Women,.......

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CHAPTER IV. OF SECURITIES.

NOTES.-Power to Sell. - Equitable Mortgages. - Deeds. - Deposit.-Recon-

veyance. Covenants. - Release from Sale. - Mortgages of Entailed Prop-

erty.-Mortgage of an Equity of Redemption.-Mortgage of Estates for

Life.-Mortgages of Leaseholds-Bond Debts,.

FORMS OF MORTGAGES.-Clauses in Mortgages. Statute respecting Mort-

gages of Real Estate,

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CHAPTER V.-OF CONVEYANCING SECURITIES.

NOTES.-Bonds.-Warrants of Attorney.-Post Obit Bonds. Transfer of

Mortgages. Redemption and Reconveyance of Mortgaged Estates

Remedies of the Mortgagee. - Redeemable Annuities,..

FORMS.-Bonds. - Post Obit Bond.-Assignment of Leasehold.-Assign-

ment of Policy of Assurance.-Assignments.-Transfer,.

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CHAPTER VI. OF SECURITIES.

Bills of Sale. Chattel Mortgages. Confession of Judgment.-Statute for

the Relief of Insolvent Debtors, which is to be called the Indigent

Debtor's Act. - Statute to Regulate the Procedure of the Superior

Courts of Common Law and of the County Courts, known as and in all

Proceedings may be cited as The Common Law Procedure Act........ 303

FORMS. Bill of Sale. -Chattel Mortgages. Confession of Judgment.-

Warrant of Attorney.-Bonds. - Composition Deeds,......

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CHAPTER VII.-LEASES AND AGREEMENTS FOR LEASES.

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NOTES-Premises of a Lease.- Covenants. - Provisoes. - Attornments.... 326

FORMS.-Covenants in Leases. Statute respecting Short Forms of Leases, 336

CHAPTER VIII. --LANDLORD AND TENANT.

FORMS,.

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CHAPTER IX.-MARRIAGE ARTICLES.

NOTES. Marriage Settlements. - Directions. - Post Nuptial and Voluntary

Settlements.-Separation Deeds,.

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FORMS. Marriage Articles. Settlement of an Estate in contemplation of

Marriage. Agreement for Settlement, before Marriage. Jointure in

Lieu of Dower.-Settlement of Real Estate on Marriage.-Settlement,

on Marriage, of Money to arise from Real Estate conveyed to Trustees

by a Deed of even Date in Trust for Sale -Settlement of Personalty.-

Settlement, on Marriage, of Real Estate upon the Husband and Wife

successively for Life, with Remainder to the Children of the Marriage, as

the Husband and Wife, or the Survivor, shall Appoint; and in Default,

in equal Shares in tail as Tenants in Common, with Cross Remainders. -

Powers of Management during Minorities, of Leasing, and of Sale and Ex-

change. Appointment on Marriage of a Reversionary Life Estate in

Personalty to an intended Husband.--Appointment of new Trustees of a
Marriage Settlement.-Appointment by Deed.-Appointment by Writ-
ing.-Disclaimer under a Settlement.-Articles of Separation,......... 394

CHAPTER X.-PARTNERSHIP DEEDS.

NOTES.-Dissolution of Partnership and winding up.-Deeds of Composi-

tion,

FORMS.-Articles of Copartnership. - Of Partnership between three Per-

sons, with unequal Division of Profits. Between two Farmers, with

equal Division of Profits. -To Renew a Partnership by Indorsement.-

Partnership Deed.-Assignment of Partnership Property by one Partner

to another, to Determine the Partnership. - Dissolution of Partnership

between two Partners, one continuing the Business. - Agreement of Dis-

solution, to be Indorsed on the Partnership Deed.-Gazette notice of

Dissolution.- Notice of Dissolution. -Notice of Expulsion from Partner-

ship.-Testatum Clause,

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CHAPTER XI. - WILLS.

NOTES. Wills of Chattels. -The Residuary Clause.-Heir.-Death with-

out Issue. Joint Tenancy.-Estates tail. -Cross Remainders. - Entails.

---Protectors of Settlements.-Long Term.-Annuity.-Accumulation.-

Legacy in Trust.-Conditions as to Marriage.-Residuary Clause.-Mar-

riage with Consent. In Terrorem. - Election. - Bar of Dower.-Condi-

tions. Restraints. - Provisoes. - Debts. -Charges on Realty. -Rents and

Profits. Trusts and Powers of Sale. - Leasehold and Personal Securi-

ties.--Trusts for Accumulation.--Annuitant.--Alienation.--Implied

Trusts.-Hotchpot.-Abatement of Legacies and Marshaling of Assets.-

The Appointment of Executors. Probate.-(Guardians.--Codicils.-Ex-

ecution and Attestation,

FORMS.--Will of Real and Personal Estate, for the benefit of the Testator's

Wife and Children. - Will of a Person giving all his Property to his Wife.

and appointing her Executrix.-Gifts not in Settlement.-All Testator's

property to wife. All testator's property to wife, with legacies to chil-

dren.-Legacies and Annuities to testator's brothers and sisters. Resi-

due to one brother. - Special Devises and Bequests. - Residue to testator's

nephew. Realty and Personalty, Trusts of the whole for sister for life,

and afterward for her adult children absolutely. - Will of a married wo-

man appointing an absolute interest in Personalty to her husband, with

legacies to other persons, under the usual Settlement Power in default

of children.-Will of a married woman appointing a Life Estate in Per-

sonalty to herhusband. Will of husband appointing Life Estate in Per-

sonalty to wife. Will of Personalty, very special.-Will.-Specific

Devise of Realty. --Specific Bequest of Books, Furniture to furnish a resi-

dence for Testator's Wife, Pictures, and Articles of Vertu.-Annuity to

Wife, Deducting her Life Interest under other Settled Property.--Legacy

of $
in Trust for a Son and Daughter of Testator, not advanced by

him; Residue, as to One Moiety to Two Advanced Children absolutely;

as to the other Moiety to the Two Children not advanced, the Daugh-

ter's Interest in the Legacy and Residue being settled upon Herself and

her Children.-Appointment by a wife of Personal Estate settled upon

her by a Marriage Contract; to take effect on her decease.--Condition

that the Obligor shall suffer his intended wife to make a Will. - Provision

for Children born after the execution of a Will.-Devise of an Annuity.

-Will of Real and Personal Estate; Short Form. -Codicil appointing

a new Trustee. Codicil appointing a Trustee and Executor in the

place of a deceased Trustee and Executor appointed by the testator's

Will. Codicil appointing a Trustee and Executor in the place of one de-

ceased.-Power to postpone the Sale of Real Estate.-Power to grant

Leases. Trustees may permit investments to remain unconverted.-

Power to change Securities.-Trustees' Power in winding up the affairs.

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