A

CONCISE PRACTICAL TREATISE

ON THE

LAW OF PROPERTY.

BY

H. W. BOYD MACKAY, ESQ., LL.B.

OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE AND THE KINGS INNS, BARRISTER-AT-LAW,
FIRST FRIZEMAN IN FEUdal and enGLISH LAW T. C. D., (1863).
AUTHOR OF "AN APOLOGY FOR THE PRESENT SYSTEM OF CONVEYANCING" (1870).

LONDON:

H. SWEET, 3, CHANCERY LANE, W. C.,

Law Bookseller and Publisher.

1882.

TO THE

RT. HON. THE EARL CAIRNS, P.C., D.C.L., LL.D.,

CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN,

*

LATE LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR OF GREAT BRITAIN.

MY LORD,

When I reflect on the rare ability which, within a period unprecedentedly short, raised your Lordship to the highest professional, and all but the highest political, eminence, I cannot but feel impressed by the greatness of the honor which you have conferred on this, my first serious published. effort, in permitting me to dedicate it to you:-nor have I ventured to solicit such a favour without endeavouring, so far as prolonged reflection and unwearied diligence could ensure that object, to render the work in some measure worthy of your patronage.

I am, My Lord,

Your most obliged and humble servant,

THE AUTHOR.