Lanterna Rally

Author: Sylvester Joseph Hunter

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13: 9781230178271

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ...with copious Prefaces, Observations and Notes on the several Deeds. By J. T. Christie, Esq., Barrister-at-Law. The Fifth Edition, with numerous Corrections and Additions, by Leonard Shelford, Esq., of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-Law. Two vols, royal 8vo., 3/. cloth. a The Law of Property Amendment and Relief of Trustees Act, 1859, has been added to the present edition. "Great changes have been made in the law since Crabb's Precedents obtained their well deserved popularity. Hence the necessity for a new edition, and the preparation of it could not have been confided to more able hands than those of Mr. Shelford, the veteran authority on real property law. With the industry that distinguishes him he has done ample justice to his task. He has rewritten the greater portion of the introductions (or prefaces), and remodelled such of the precedents as required reformation to meetthe exigencies of new statutes, new decisions or new practice. In carefulness we have in him a second Crabb, in erudition Crabb's superior; and the result is a work of which the original author would have been proud, could it have appeared under his own auspices. It is not a book to be quoted, nor indeed could its merits be exhibited by quotation. It is essentially a book of practice, which can only be described in rude outline and dismissed with applause and a recommendation of it to the notice of those for whose service it has been so laboriously compiled."--Law Times. "Mr.Shelford has shown remarkable industry and faithfulness in noting up recent decisions relating more immediately to the practice of conveyancing. The collection of precedents contained in these two volumes are all that could be desired. They are particularly well adapted for...